Example sentences for: pasty

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

  • Brooks, who is often accused (wrongly) of playing himself, has left himself too far out of The Muse . At least I hope he has: How else to account for this bland, pasty, not terribly funny protagonist?

  • When I was younger, I would occasionally come across books issued by Progress Publishers, Moscow, and I never failed to be puzzled by the poor quality of the photographic illustrations--even works published in the 1970s featured pasty, smudgy, usually blue-tinted approximations of photos (the translated works, for that matter, were printed in a roman typeface that looked as if it had been purchased before 1917 from a Western dime-novel concern).

  • Unlike most starch-based food additives, methyl cellulose gives a buttery, rather than pasty, flavor.

  • Nina Totenberg ( Inside Washington ) offers a similar sentiment: On television Starr looks pasty; in real life he's "a chipmunk of a guy."

  • First, there are obvious and widespread things like Eccles cakes, Lancashire hotpot, Cornish pasty, and Welsh rarebit.


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