Example sentences for: syrup

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

  • Indeed, I believe that Golden Syrup [ sic : no hyphen] is a trademark owned by Tate & Lyle for a uniquely treacly mixture.

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • And those horrible little designs made of chocolate syrup on the dessert plate, by the way, are also about show-offy competence, but so very, very 1989.

  • The entry for golden-syrup give a cross-reference to syrup, where it is not mentioned; as I understand the style, this means that the two are to be construed as synonyms, which is not the case.

  • Punch, the ubiquitous drink of local rum, sugarcane syrup, and lime, is popular from dawn to dusk.


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