How to Use oozy in a Sentence

oozy

adjective
  • Croissants are not made to hold a heavy amount of wet beef and oozy cheese, yet somehow, this works.
    Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • The three crisp balls had a spongecake-like texture and an oozy cheese filling.
    Jennifer Graue, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2017
  • But meringue’s cloudlike puffs originate in the off-puttingly oozy white of an egg.
    Helen Czerski, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • Cheddar Shredded cheddar is here for all your oozy dairy needs.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The thick layer of mucilage that covered the Sea of Marmara for weeks was an unsettling glimpse of climate change’s more oozy effects.
    Jenna Scatena, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2021
  • At the end of practice, when the girls are supposed to be working on their serves, Serena opens the bag, hits a couple of oranges over the fence and then smashes the fruit into a sticky, oozy, fleshy pulp.
    Elizabeth Weil, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Enjoy the meld of crispy chicken, hearty waffle, oozy maple syrup and the vegan’s nightmare: bacon butter.
    Sara Stoudt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Scamorza also crisps to a beautiful brown in a hot, dry cast-iron pan without melting all over the place, sort of like halloumi, and oozy wedges of it have anchored some of my favorite antipasti platters at Vetri.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Crispy tostadas topped with stewed lamb and crunchy lettuce, oozy enchiladas with the requisite rice and beans, and all the other delicious-looking Mexican dishes on the lunch counter’s Instagram feed.
    Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The McDonald's locations overseas have been blessed with the sweetest, chocolatiest, ooziest dessert ever.
    Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Onboard, virtually every surface is coated in oozy ink.
    By Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Bessemer suggested going even more associative or even onamonapeatic, like oozy or cushy.
    Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 9 May 2023

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