Example sentences for: doughnuts

How can you use “doughnuts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.

  • This may be one reason, besides orthographic brevity, that American English has changed doughnuts to donuts and hiccough to hiccup .

  • Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.

  • The descendants of the sourdoughs (four of whom, early this century, first one of Mount McKinley's two 20,000-foot peaks, dragging with them a pine pole, an oversized American flag, and a bag of stale doughnuts) are, of course, less refined in their sensibilities.

  • I almost always feel a very strong attraction to doughnuts.


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