How to Use glutinous in a Sentence

glutinous

adjective
  • The sauce was overly glutinous and thick, making this our least favorite char siu bao.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Also recovered was a glutinous ball of cornmeal wrapped in blue ribbon and white string.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • So two of the younger roommates cook, emerging an hour later with a glutinous, inedible glop.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
  • However, fake meat is no longer just glutinous balls or tofu hidden beneath sauces.
    — Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2015
  • Balls of slightly glutinous sweet potato dough are filled with coconut flesh that’s been grated and roasted.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • There is nothing like the glutinous gutbuster of a sandwich, with three different cheeses.
    — Ed Condran, courant.com, 24 June 2018
  • It's glazed in a lush miso butter and seared to perfection with dueling layers of glutinous flesh and crisp edges.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Families observe this time by enjoying special foods, such as glutinous rice balls known as tang yuan.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2016
  • Switch regular wheat flour for cheaper potato flour and the doughnut becomes glutinous and sticks to your teeth.
    — David Pierson, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • The glutinous substance was actually bread dough, rising like dinner rolls in a pan.
    — Samantha Schmidt, sacbee, 27 July 2017
  • Just hope your meal ends with the addictive glutinous black rice porridge, which is gently sweet and pairs well with the longan tea that'll be served alongside it.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2018
  • The drink is assertively sour and limey, with a glutinous texture from the chia seeds that have soaked up the liquid and turned into bouncy little bits.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • This slime is a glutinous, colorful substance adolescents carry around to knead, fold and swirl—at school, at home, everywhere.
    — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Because of the high starch content, risotto famously needs to be stirred, to prevent it from congealing into a thick, glutinous mass.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 5 July 2022
  • The purple, glutinous dish is a traditional part of Hawaiian cuisine, sold at grocery stores and served in homes and restaurants statewide.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • An ingredient with the term glutinous in the title might be misleading, but rest assured, both rice flour and glutinous rice flour are entirely gluten-free.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2022
  • Such product innovation has worked well for KFC, which now lists crayfish burgers and glutinous-rice wings on its menu.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • On the table next to Captain Purdie’s bunk is what looks like a copper coin, a fringe of glutinous seaweed smothering it to the surface of the wood.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Interestingly, while rye flour is less glutinous, and thus less structure-protecting, Sycamore Kitchen’s recipe did not produce a thin cookie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The lime and clay destroy the slimy glutinous character of the sewage ‘sludge’ and keep the sewer outlet drain free from the festering and putrefying deposit which otherwise tends to choke it.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
  • Emulsifying agents in the condiment, such as the pectin rhamnogalacturonan, originate from the mucilage of mustard seeds, a thick, glutinous layer that surrounds the seed hull.
    — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • Too many glutinous books, like too many oysters, are bad for the digestion; and digestive trouble is one of the complaints that bring the sick, or those who fancy themselves to be sickening, to Sanditon.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Traditionally, Mardi Gras was the day people would binge on fatty, glutinous foods in preparation for fasting during Lent.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Hart House’s shakes are also free of oats, which, while gluten-free themselves, can come into contact with wheat and other glutinous grains during the farming, sorting, storage and transportation processes.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Testers found that The Only Bean’s edamame pasta absorbed the sauces and flavors of their favorite dishes beautifully, and as a bonus, cooked faster than your standard glutinous options.
    — Grace McCarty, SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The tofu itself is remarkably good, fried until the potato starch batter turns simultaneously crisp and glutinous, but the sauce adds a spectrum of flavor from sugary-sweet to inexplicably meaty.
    — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Lars Nicolaysen/picture alliance via Getty Images But the glutinous cakes can easily get stuck in people's throats, restricting breathing — and sometimes causing death.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Not much of that clarity, however, is evident in a mind-deadening, 252-page document that lays out the nitty-gritty elements of the bureaucratic changes in bewildering detail, mostly in glutinous prose.
    — George Russell, Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • Observing an actual Parisian rejecting butter—one of France’s holy trinity of dairy products, along with cheese and crème fraîche—was a window into the new wellness culture seeping into what might have been the world’s last bastion of free-flowing wine and glutinous bread.
    — Hannah Seligson, Vanity Fair, 12 Feb. 2026

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