How to Use halvah in a Sentence

halvah

noun

• The feuilles that called to me was made with sesame and halvah.
  — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• Make a yogurt dip for dates, make black halvah, eat it on plain white rice.
  — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2017
• Moist, fudgy and complex, thanks to date syrup, teff flour and halvah (sesame-paste candy).
  — Kara Elder, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• Seed & Mill, a halvah company, will have a cart selling tahini ground on the spot.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
• After lunch, wander down to Kalei Coffee Co. to chill in their shaded courtyard with a big slice of chocolate-and-halvah pie, the local sweet made from tahini.
  — John Gregory-Smith, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2018
• This riff on millionaire’s shortbread adds a layer of halvah between the shortbread and caramel layers.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• Countertops were laden with halvah, a sesame seed candy I hadn’t seen in years, and dreidels, little tops with Hebrew letters that children play with on Hanukkah.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Dessert is simple: choose from halvah pudding cups or chocolatey tahini cookies.
  — Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• But the appearance of tahini shortbread cookies, tahini brownies, and halvah sundaes at restaurants helped boost tahini out of the hummus bowl and into the pastry case.
  — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 26 Mar. 2018
• Chocolate and cinnamon are traditional, but Nuchi also made halvah, raspberry-cheese and even savory versions.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• While most bakers just make chocolate or cinnamon babka, Nuchi creates unusual renditions like halvah, raspberry-cheese and Nutella.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 14 Feb. 2020

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