Example sentences for: pasty

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

  • The famous Cornish pasties provide the saying, As long as Jan Bedella's fiddle if a new young cook makes a misshapen pasty.

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

  • 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).

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

  • There are suddenly children wild on the streets, clogging the doorway to the convenience store, raucously scraping their skateboards and roller blades along the sidewalks, flaunting their pasty winter skins in shorts and baggy untucked T-shirts.


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