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Synonyms for jelly
Synonyms: Verb
clot, coagulate, congeal, gel, gelate, gelatinize, jell, set
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Examples of jelly in a Sentence
Noun
a selection of different jellies and jams He spread some jelly on his toast. a jar of grape jelly a peanut butter and jelly sandwich a meat glaze made with stock and jellyVerb
this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected
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Toppings such as tapioca pearls, jellies and ice cream are an additional 60 cents, and creama, a salty cheese foam topping, is an additional $1. — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, "Sip, sip, enjoy! Sharetea opens first bubble tea shop on Bardstown Road," 9 Aug. 2019 Many invertebrates are also known to glow, from corals to jellies to crustaceans. — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, "These sharks glow underwater—thanks to tiny ‘lightsabers’," 8 Aug. 2019 Time passed, and at least on the surface the plan was working: Colin carefully tracked his workouts at age 14, and his grape jelly recipe won third place in the Minnesota State Fair. — Kent Babb / Washington Post, Twin Cities, "MN native and olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all — until it all became too much," 29 July 2019 The Israeli questions about my family did not hold an eerie, underlying threat that made my mouth go dry and my legs turn to jelly. — Annika Hernroth-rothstein, WSJ, "An Interview Isn’t an Interrogation," 19 Aug. 2018 Depending on the type of jelly, a sting can be anywhere from mildly painful to deadly. — N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY, "Florida lifeguards treat more than 800 for jellyfish stings. Here's what to do if you get stung.," 12 June 2018 Instead of our usual minimal capsule wardrobes, everyone is indulging their inner 12-year-old and piling on the baby-doll dresses, tie-dye, and jelly sandals. — Glamour, "The Best Neon Nail Polishes for 2019," 26 July 2019 Muth also told the affiliate the school district was considering serving students with delinquent accounts peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. — Amir Vera, CNN, "Pennsylvania school district tells parents to pay their lunch debt, or their kids will go into foster care," 20 July 2019 Buzz Aldrin became more famous than peanut butter and jelly. — David Whitley, orlandosentinel.com, "Astronaut Michael Collins was ideal ‘Forgotten Man’ for Apollo 11," 19 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The depths are a swirl of tapioca, agar-agar and basil seeds like a hundred tiny eyes, jellied on the outside with a crunch within. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, "Burmese Cuisine, a New York Rarity, at Rangoon Spoon," 24 May 2018 From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl. — CNN, "Solden: The ski resort with a James Bond museum," 26 Oct. 2017 And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos. — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, "Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller Goes to Prison: Inside the Place She Could Spend the Next 366 Days," 12 July 2017 Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts. — Meredith Blake, latimes.com, "Little food, no showers, but at least no one had cholera: what it was like to star in 'Victorian Slum House'," 15 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'jelly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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