Example sentences for: mintz

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

  • But it's the saga of refined sugar that forms the core of this book, a tale Mintz punctuates with telling historical surprises.

  • Mintz seems puzzled, musing that it wasn't as though he'd said America had no literature.

  • Mintz quotes some astonishing speeches by Abolitionists who easily equated cane sugar with murder, one of them even providing the precise calculus: "[I]n every pound of sugar used (the product of the slaves imported from Africa), we may be considered as consuming two ounces of blood."

  • Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no "cuisine."

  • "Regional cuisines," Mintz says, are "authentic" because they use "local ingredients" and involve "a community of people who eat it, cook it, have opinions about it, and engage in dialogue involving those opinions."


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