How to Use doughy in a Sentence

doughy

adjective
  • High humidity can make your loaves turn out doughy.
  • It puffs and crisps and the toppings seep and swoop through doughy canyons.
    — Bill Addison, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • The thick and doughy crust was one of our faves, but the sauce and cheese are understated.
    — cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Seafood spring rolls were doughy rather than crispy, and the crab and scallop stuffing bland.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • But the secret highlight on the menu is the peach cobbler, flaky and fresh instead of doughy.
    — Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 27 Sep. 2017
  • But the dough balls are too doughy, and there’s not enough of the ice cream (which doesn’t seem to taste like buckwheat tea, at any rate).
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Empanadas are equally grand in scale, with thick bumpy braids, and more doughy than flaky.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • The name of the food is wang mandu, which roughly means doughy softball of goodness.
    — chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Figure-eight-shaped Philly soft pretzels, dense and doughy and served straight from the oven in take-home paper bags.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
  • And, for the Aldi pizza, the comments were all about the crust, which everyone thought was too doughy.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Kim Jong Un is a doughy man with an odd haircut and a cartoon villain’s face.
    — Jerry Brewer, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The food is a doughy lifeline between her and her lover, between her and the country of her parents.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a lot to love about the doughy confection, but — a JPMorgan Chase donut?
    — Megan Hess, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • The pizza is not crispy at all, with a uniquely doughy, airy, pleasantly chewy and very tasty crust.
    — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
  • These doughy rolls are crusted with pecorino cheese and enough garlic to make any vampire on the block run away.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The Bears offense is the doughy guy at the gym with the love handles, vowing to change but lacking the discipline to follow through.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The piece de resistance was a golden popover served warm from the oven, crisp outside and doughy inside.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • On Mahila’s opening menu is a $12 dish of sardine puffs, doughy balls made with fish and tomatoes.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
  • The restaurant offers thin crust and deep dish, but go with the pan pizza, which is perfectly crispy, doughy and cheesy all at once.
    — Joan Niesen and Laken Litman, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • In May 1994, Chris gave birth to their first child, a girl named Franki, and three years later, a doughy redheaded boy named Sam.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The process of separating the four compartments left more of an impression than the flavor of the doughy dumpling.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Langley, who is 43 and has the doughy look of an aging skater, interrupts.
    — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
  • That means doughy foods, like pizza, pasta and bagels, as well as sweets, are strictly off limits.
    — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The fritters can be served in their own doughy goodness — or be stuffed with cod or another protein.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Cobblers are topped with doughy dumplings or biscuit batter.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Four hours later, the tops of the biscuits were nearly finished baking, but the bottoms remained doughy.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • In countries like Ghana, a doughy mush of cassava (or plantains or yams) called fufu goes with most meals.
    — Popular Science, 20 Apr. 2020
  • In a Tuesday workout, Dawejko wasn’t so doughy — even svelte at about 230 — after months of training.
    — Don Steinberg, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • At Ácenar, the fried oyster taco has only the third thing to lean on, and the doughy breading wasn’t something to talk about, nor was the corn tortilla or thin, thready slaw ($13.95 with rice and beans).
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
  • If the dumplings are still doughy, cover and continue cooking until finished.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024

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