winey
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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I think of it instead as mysterious, perfumed, winey, deep.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2022
People describe it as a sort of winey flavor.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020
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
Even now, Theon could recall the winey stench of the old man's breath.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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