Example sentences for: vanilla

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

  • Vanilla , extracted from the seedpods of a tropical plant, was borrowed from Spanish vainilla , which denoted the flower, the pod, or the flavoring.

  • Vanilla ice cream and Hershey's chocolate syrup.

  • Following Noble's instructions, I put a little cheap white wine into 15 glasses and then spiked each one with a different physical standard: peach puree, apricot puree, brine of asparagus, strawberry jam, wet cardboard, fresh strawberry, pineapple juice, soy sauce, green olive, melted butter, coffee grinds, fresh lime juice, cloves, vanilla, and shaved almonds.

  • Tampons, for instance, can be delicately referred to with English words such as `tea-bag' tiibagu , `cracker' kuraka , `wireless microphone' wairesumaiku, or `vanilla (ice-cream cone)' banira . Another taboo subject, condoms, can be touched on with playful metaphors such as: `globe' gurôbu, `raincoat' reinkôto, or `cover for Mr. John' jon-kun kaba .

  • There have, of course, been plenty of teeny-bopper idols--New Kids on the Block, Take That, Tiffany, Vanilla Ice, Menudo (Hollywood's byways are littered with their corpses)--but none has ever been as well marketed as the Spice Girls.


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