How to Use fritter in a Sentence

fritter

1 of 2 noun
  • These fritters are sweet, tart, and spiced, all at once.
    — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Pair with apple cider donuts or pear fritters for a sweet send-off!
    — Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Add greens raw to salads, saute them, and use them for fritters.
    — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Used for tea, wine, oils, jelly and fritters.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Canelés, financiers and, at least for a short while, peach fritters.
    — Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Use a slotted spoon to transfer fritters to a wire rack to drain.
    — Emily Teel, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2026
  • There's nothing like cast iron for getting a good sear on fritters like this.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 July 2023
  • Stir in cheese and eggs to create fritters or baked dishes, such as casseroles.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
  • For dessert, sample the apple fritters and fruit tarts.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Serve fritters warm and drizzle with hot honey.
    — Emily Teel, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2026
  • Shrimp and grits and Caribbean pholourie fritters were on the menu.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2019
  • For a crispy, snackable way to use leftover rice, try making rice fritters.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Make zucchini fritters, and serve them with sour cream or yogurt sauce.
    — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 4 Aug. 2025
  • From creamed corn to corn fritters to succotash and more, here are our favorite ways to serve corn as a side dish.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
  • These fritters are similar to hush puppies, but lighter and full of fresh corn flavor.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 7 May 2026
  • His wife, Janae, steps in with the apple fritters and cinnamon rolls.
    — Jamiel Robinson, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Staples include prawn pastelillos and salt cod fritters.
    — Ben Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2026
  • There's also apfel-cake fritter and German frühstück plate of meats.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Here, the cornmeal fritters come in thick, short strips that are closer to the size and shape of your index finger.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Surprise guests with bite-size fritters that star the season's sweetest produce.
    — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And on their own, the tortitas fritters are a simple effort with a grand reward.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Alumni return for the apple fritters and whole-wheat doughnuts.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • Fry, flipping once, until the fritters are golden brown on both sides, about 2 minutes per side.
    — Leah Koenig, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The fritter magic happens with the leftover scrap dough a little bit later.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Miniature versions of the classic island fritter, they are made and fried to order.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Turnips can be grated and turned into fritters, transformed into a creamy soup and diced and added to risotto.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Add half of batter in 1/4-cup mounds and flatten slightly to make 3-inch fritters.
    — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Clover’s food options range from a chickpea fritter sandwich to french fries with rosemary to rhubarb agua fresca.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2021
  • Sugar snap salad, cheesy green pea fritters, shrimp and pea pancakes, and more ways to load your spring dinner plan with all the peas.
    — Hannah Lee Leidy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • From baba to eggplant parm, ratatouille and fritters, these are our favorite eggplant recipes to cook any time of the year.
    — Joe Sevier, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2025

fritter

2 of 2 verb
  • Don't fritter away your time when a simple tweak is all that is needed.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, such chances were, like so many times before, frittered away.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
  • Better to pay dividends or buy back shares than fritter the money away.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • But energy is precious, and no species can afford to fritter it away.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The Panthers had so many chances to win Sunday, but frittered them all away.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Though the time savings are not enormous, don’t fritter away Amtrak’s gift.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But Broadway stardom of his caliber is too precious to fritter away on a star turn.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
  • Fritters are a savory side dish, but frittering your time away is not something to relish.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
  • To be a person who isn’t frittering away her life having vengeful thoughts about people from her past!
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • But there’s something to be said for frittering away money on leading-edge tech that may never amount to much.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Other parties, which have tended to fritter away their support on squabbles, might team up against him.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Denver’s top guard prospects fritter through the season without showing any real progress.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • What proportion of our scientists’ careers will be frittered away on the trail of nothing much at all?
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Other times CEOs just fritter the money away, as in the dot-com bubble.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The lead was frittered away in 40 seconds, as forward Juwan Morgan took over the game.
    — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But these conflicts often fritter away energies that could be better used to enhance public life.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The Kardashians fritter away a huge amount of time, in fact, playing harmless pranks on one another.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The second-guessing comes faster than a bullet train in Germany when leads are frittered away in the last inning, or innings.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
  • This reporter read it in one long sitting, frittering away a whole weekend day between its pages so entertaining was the tale.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, 7 July 2019
  • The cash was funnelled through shell companies around the world and frittered away on yachts, artworks, diamonds and other fripperies.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Don’t fritter away valuable time socializing or daydreaming to the exclusion of all else.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2017
  • In the final, against a white-hot Kostyuk, Andreeva never got into the first set and then frittered a lead in the second.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • So maybe coach Andy Reid and the team learned a little something about themselves in the process of nearly having the season frittered away.
    — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 16 Dec. 2017
  • This is a roster that frittered away Super Bowl aspirations this season.
    — Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Mike McCarthy’s decision to play scared at the end of the first half and fritter away the last 90 seconds was beyond puzzling.
    — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Third-year quarterback Bryce Young led a touchdown drive and the defense looked good in limited work before the reserves frittered it all away.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said last week after his team nearly frittered away a three-goal lead in the third period against the Islanders.
    — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • History might not even remember that Smith was only able to fritter away a crucial possession because Hill missed a go-ahead free throw.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 6 June 2018
  • But the real victims of the climate crisis will not be white Americans such as Sundog, who can afford to fritter their days wandering the woods.
    — Outside Online, 11 July 2021
  • But first, of course, there was a game on Friday, one in which the Royals frittered away an opportunity for a second straight win with a shaky seventh inning.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 4 Aug. 2017

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