soft serve
noun
variants
or soft-serve
: a smooth semisolid ice cream that contains less milk fat than regular ice cream and is made in and dispensed from a freezer in which it is aerated and continuously churned
—often used before another noun
soft-serve ice cream
a soft-serve machine
Examples of soft serve in a Sentence
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Blake's doughnut sundae features three cider donuts topped with creamy soft-serve ice cream.
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Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
Get your whole churros with soft-serve and dulce de leche.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
One day, Castro took us to a school with a new soft-serve ice cream machine.
—Kathie Berlin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Diners will be able to sample hearty dishes like pork coppa with sauerkraut and finish the meal with profiteroles with soft-serve in flavors like honeycomb and pistachio.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
And that's when the fight over ice cream began to really heat up, as David Pogue reports:
A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?
—David Morgan, CBS News, 21 July 2024
Dairy Queen, Smoothie King plan pumpkin offerings for the fall
Dairy Queen's Pumpkin Pie Blizzard, which blends real pumpkin pie pieces with vanilla soft-serve ice cream, returns Aug. 26.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The shop will also offer traditional Mexican breads, ten types of tres leches cakes and soft-serve ice cream.
—Laura Barrero, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
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Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
Get your whole churros with soft-serve and dulce de leche.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
One day, Castro took us to a school with a new soft-serve ice cream machine.
—Kathie Berlin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Diners will be able to sample hearty dishes like pork coppa with sauerkraut and finish the meal with profiteroles with soft-serve in flavors like honeycomb and pistachio.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
And that's when the fight over ice cream began to really heat up, as David Pogue reports:
A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?
—David Morgan, CBS News, 21 July 2024
Dairy Queen, Smoothie King plan pumpkin offerings for the fall
Dairy Queen's Pumpkin Pie Blizzard, which blends real pumpkin pie pieces with vanilla soft-serve ice cream, returns Aug. 26.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The shop will also offer traditional Mexican breads, ten types of tres leches cakes and soft-serve ice cream.
—Laura Barrero, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Soft serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft%20serve. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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