biscuit

[ UK /bˈɪskɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪskət/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
  2. small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
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How To Use biscuit In A Sentence

  • Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
  • (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
  • By 1939, it had 30 British bakeries and introduced low-price tea biscuits, previously a luxury only afforded by the middle classes.
  • Meanwhile, Angela Brockway and other members of the reading group are struggling to carry on without their friend: There were about 14 of us who all used to sit round her big Victorian table in her conservatory with mugs of tea and coffee and piles of what we called 'posh' biscuits. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • Tea and biscuits will be provided.
  • Biscuit base filled with lemon scented Ilalian ricotta cheese, decorated with strawberries and red currants.
  • I got sick after a biscuit, a strip of bacon, and an egg.
  • Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
  • Yes, some teachers and parents reflexively hand out the equivalent of a doggie biscuit every few minutes, the result being that kids habituate to it and it has no impact. Alfie Kohn: Criticizing (Common Criticisms of) Praise
  • She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
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