winey
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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What if I kept that incredible buttery, garlicky, winey sauce — and put it on something that wouldn't induce anaphylaxis?
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2022
Lucinda’s version has purple barley, but they felt like a forced addition to the nice winey broth, oddly akin to soup-meets-bubble-tea.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2019
We confuse him with the truly engagé Enlightenment and Romantic writers who came long afterward, as they came to confuse his briny Bordeaux with their winey one.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
Scallop boudin blanc is a seafood sausage with the lightness of mousse and a twinkle from trout roe, an attraction improbably and lusciously served on a backdrop of julienned snow peas and winey sauerkraut.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2016
“It’s missing the whole winey texture. It’s a little too woody.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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