How to Use aniseed in a Sentence

aniseed

noun

• Baked apples and oak hit first but then takes an herbal and fragrant turn towards aniseed, fennel, and celery dipped in peanut butter.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Add in cinnamon and nutmeg, a healthy amount of ginger and pepper, plus some aniseed and coriander.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
• The wheat dough Nilsson is working with includes golden syrup, aniseed, fennel seeds and coriander seeds.
  — Howie Kahn, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• Finish your meals with a chupito (shot) of hierbas ibicencas—a savory-sweet liqueur blended with wild herbs and aniseed.
  — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• On the primi side of things, penne with broccoli rabe included abundant chunks of a sausage rewardingly strong on the fennel-aniseed flavor.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• McCormick also roasted small cubes of eggplant and glazed it with a mixture of orange and lemon juice, honey, aniseed, and orange zest for brightness and sweetness.
  — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 29 Jan. 2018
• The two-week process involves fermenting a mix of sugar or fruit, water, lemon salt and dried yeast before distilling the alcohol and adding aniseed oil and water.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherché, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Another must-try is the roasted wheat with aniseed and hazelnut for dessert, which goes perfectly with one of the kitchen’s non-alcoholic drinks, such as apple juice kefir or green tea kombucha.
  — Jessica Jungbauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2017
• But in the evenings, relatives and friends would come to visit — everyone would be glued to the TV — and there was always cardamom coffee and malateet or makarona (savory or sweet aniseed crackers) on the coffee table.
  — Reem Kassis, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• Preparation Toast aniseed in a dry small skillet over medium heat, tossing often, until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• At the elegant Art Nouveau bar Anisetta Meletti, customers can order the olives as an accompaniment to the establishment’s renowned liqueur made from aniseed.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• Basmati rice grown in the Himalayan foothills is the base for this silky Indian vodka, distilled five times in a certified carbon-neutral facility, then infused with aniseed for rich flavor.
  — Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2021
• This aniseed-flavored spirit is usually sipped slowly over long meals, but it can also be chased (or co-sipped)i with şalgam suyu, a complex elixir made of pickled red carrots, turnips, and spices, and fermented in wooden barrels.
  — Nikita Richardson, Bon Appetit, 28 Apr. 2017
• That’s an apt description of the 2018 Bohan-Dillon, which recalls raspberry, pine needles and aniseed, and whose bright, expressive fruit flavors are countered with a pleasant bitterness.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• Evoke the aura of a cackling fire with this woody scent from Diptyque, which features notes of wood, vetiver and patchouli enhanced with radient aniseed, insolent spices, mysterious incense, cistus and tonka bean.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
• For this first go-around, the machines evidently poured over infinite iterations to help Mackmyra create AI Whisky, a golden yellow single-malt with herbal notes of aniseed, ginger, and white pepper and a citrusy, spicy mouth with a dry finish.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024