How to Use loaf in a Sentence

loaf

1 of 2 noun
  • All of which are driving up the price of a loaf of bread.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Wade hopes to guide you on the journey from farmer to loaf.
    Lisa Futterman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The most common loaf sizes are 1-pound, 1.5 pounds, and 2-pounds.
    Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2023
  • To make two loaves, cut the dough into three equal pieces.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Grab the ingredients, a saucepan, a blender, and a loaf pan.
    Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • The Poosh founder then posted a photo of a large loaf of bread next to a pot.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • To make the loaf pan hanging planter: Choose a pan with openings in the handles.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Wrap the cooled quick bread loaf in plastic wrap, then set in the middle of a dish towl.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Form each into a small ball to create the heads for each loaf.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • And of course, the lemon flavor sings, with more depth than a standard lemon loaf.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
  • The oval shape helps to produce the classic bakery loaf shape.
    Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 19 July 2023
  • Turn the loaves out of the pans and set them right--side up on a cutting board or flat surface.
    Florence O'Connor, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Check out the recipe for homemade vanilla ice cream frozen in a loaf pan.
    Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 30 June 2023
  • The loaf's texture will be more evenly moist and less crumbly.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2023
  • Bread is on offer for those who wish to pick up a loaf on their way out.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
  • And if that is the case,you’ll need to sit down with a slice of Café Georgetown’s lemon poppy loaf cake.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
  • The recipe makes two large loaves or three regular loaves.
    Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • Twist the two dough halves three or four times and place twisted dough into loaf pan.
    Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Hollow out the inside of the loaf of bread and fill with crawfish étouffée.
    David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Place four 8x4-inch foil loaf pans up-side-down on the two short ends of the stadium, two pans per side.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2023
  • The woman listened and selected a long loaf the shape of a stick.
    Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Spray a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with vegetable oil cooking spray and set aside.
    Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Complete the meal with a green salad and a fresh loaf of bread to dunk the extra sauce in, and dinner is served!
    Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
  • Someone even made a loaf of bread emblazoned with the lyrics.
    WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Every day, trucks set off for the capital full of warm loaves.
    Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Twenty-five minutes later, Rachel pulled one loaf out of the oven.
    Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In an 8-inch or 9-inch loaf pan, spray cooking spray to ensure the banana bread doesn't stick.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The Hubble telescope saw that the loaf is rising ever faster.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
  • After all the manhandling by Uncle and now the bread seller, the loaf looked bruised and broken.
    Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Cut a loaf of country white bread into cubes rather than slices to create bite-size bits of French toast.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Mar. 2024
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loaf

2 of 2 verb
  • I spent most of the weekend just loafing around the house.
  • All ducks and geese have to have open water of some kind to roost and loaf on.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
  • Geese will look for a loafing spot between 9 and 10 a.m., and that’s what these are doing.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Place on the table with a nice warm country loaf to rip into and let the good times begin.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • After more than three decades of hard work as a big league umpire, Mike Winters is ready to loaf.
    Ben Walker, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Hens and drakes pair up and spread out, looking to feed, roost, and loaf in places where they won’t be disturbed by unpaired males.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Chocolate malt ball loaf prep in honor of Father’s Day: 5 p.m. June 9.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • As that sub-6000-rpm power peak implies, this is a car that likes to loaf along on turbo torque rather than race to redline.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Deer spent a lot of time loafing there in January and February, and bucks dropped bone there.
    Mike Hanback, Outdoor Life, 24 Mar. 2020
  • My dinner choice was a constant of shrimp and grits served with a freshly baked crusty bread loaf with drawn garlic butter to drizzle.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Data from Google confirm that, as people around the world have spent more time loafing about at home, interest in DIY baking has been on the rise.
    The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Bread Grab a hearty sourdough loaf a few days before Thanksgiving to make your own croutons, stuffing, and bread crumbs.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Instead of the traditional preparation, here the terrine (or loaf pan) is bagged and submerged in the sous vide tub for two hours at 149 degrees.
    Joe Ray, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Such loafing on the job following the time change suggests that people are less productive when mildly sleep deprived due to the time change.
    The Conversation, oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2019
  • There obviously are other motives for Fox’s bakers, the Murdochs, to knead more yeast into the Brady loaf.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • Quilted Hammock, $250, pawleysislandhammocks.com A father is entitled to loaf around the house in his holey college hoodie.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • The mixture of Dungeness and Jonah crabmeat was unseasoned and seemed scant compared to the engorged sourdough loaf the mixture was swiped onto.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
  • Socks' favorite pastimes include napping, loafing and sitting close to his foster mom.
    Laura Bruck, cleveland.com, 7 May 2017
  • Nobody at Success Academy is using the pandemic as an excuse to loaf.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • During a post-high-school, pre-college summer so many of her contemporaries spend loafing, such moments of normalcy are rare for the 17-year-old McLaughlin.
    Dan Greene, SI.com, 12 July 2017
  • Using two spatulas, transfer loaf to a serving platter; cut into eight slices.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Nutria often use these as feeding, grooming, loafing, and sunning platforms.
    Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Baking bread — like this sourdough loaf from Caroline Hargraves — was a popular during the pandemic.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Scoring sourdough directs the expansion and shape of your final bread loaf by creating intentional weak spots.
    Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2021
  • For many years remote work had something of a stigma associated with it, as managers believed that being out of sight would mean people would loaf off and productivity would fall.
    Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • In other words, subjects responded to the suddenly-more-difficult run by doing a corresponding amount of loafing.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 1 Oct. 2017
  • What to order: The country loaf (their version of traditional sourdough), apple cheddar scones, chocolate croissants and the addictive sablé shortbread cookies.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Sport mode overcomes much of the conservativeness, but the transmission’s fuzzy logic to adapt to the driver’s performance style can be frustratingly slow to wake up and deliver evasive power after loafing along.
    Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • What the Vi headphones provide that those other gadgets don't is real-time, personalized coaching that occasionally pipes up (think: Cortana to Master Chief) to call out instructions, note your progress, and/or just tell you to stop loafing.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 8 Oct. 2017
  • There’s concern about people loafing while on government assistance.
    Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2018

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