How to Use gelatinous in a Sentence

gelatinous

adjective
  • The massive vat of gelatinous veal stock spilling in the walk-in, though?
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 3 June 2024
  • The slugs have figured out a way to be strong where gelatinous desserts are weak.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • The sea slug’s body is made up of a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Or a gelatinous bowl of poached lamb that let the blood-red oil do all the shouting.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The females lay eggs that are contained in a gelatinous mass.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Images of gelatinous fish sliding across the floor ran through my head.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Many of the dives found swarms of gelatinous animals known as siphonophores.
    — Author: William J. Broad, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The aliens need something weighty to disrupt with their gelatinous selves.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The tiny cephalopods have gelatinous, fragile bodies with huge eyes.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2015
  • Slabs of gelatinous fleshlike goo, first in white, then black, bounce across the playing field.
    — Lillian Davies, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then, be sure to strain out any thick, gelatinous remains so all you're left with is the flavor.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 11 May 2018
  • The floors would be coated in a butter and soda gelatinous mess.
    — Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • In the dark, deep ocean fish are usually gelatinous and often lack eyes.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
  • Deep-sea jellyfish tend to turn to gelatinous goo when captured in nets.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The footage also showed a panther that could project its own image and the gelatinous cube.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 July 2022
  • The stream was bright orange, its water almost gelatinous at the edges.
    — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Chia seeds are known for their high fiber content and their filling, gelatinous texture.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Their heat is the pulse of a soup whose base is built from pork bones but enriched with the gelatinous magic of pig’s feet.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Squishy, pale and gelatinous, the blobfish isn’t winning any beauty pageants.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Hippos have four hooved nails, but at birth Fiona's were soft, almost gelatinous, and white.
    — Shauna Steigerwald, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Known as the devil’s fingers, this fungus starts life as a gelatinous, egg-like sac buried in the soil.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • One at a time, rub the seeds on the paper towel to remove their gelatinous coating.
    — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • Good menudo is a clear broth with just the barest hint of a gelatinous thickness, which pleasantly sticks to the palate.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2022
  • But the film is largely a bloody, bouncing, gelatinous blob, all lubed up with nowhere to really go.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The outside, fragile and crisp, segues to a gelatinous cod membrane filling.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • There’s even a gelatinous character named Jell-A who seems like tree sap sprung to life.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Then, as the female releases thousands of eggs in pearly, gelatinous strands, the male coats them with sperm.
    — Popular Science, 13 May 2020
  • First, the eyes could help detect gelatinous prey, which emit light at or near the UV spectrum.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Females deposit eggs in a gelatinous mass on the dorsal surface of leaves hanging above streams, near the tip.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The mousse was far too gelatinous and gooey for a real mousse texture, and the raspberry lacked that true fruit flavor.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024

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