How to Use pasty in a Sentence

pasty

1 of 2 noun
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  • Using a pasty brush, lightly coat the top crust and the edges with the egg wash.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 1 July 2019
  • The pasty must also be shaped like a D and have a thick crimp on the side, not on top.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Pie Portland pasty chef Michelle Vernier cooks the fruit ahead so the pie won’t collapse in the oven.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The model was ready for Burning Man in a mesh neon-green skirt and pasties to match.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • No smoke and mirrors just a sweaty Shayna on the beach with her pasty skin and messy hair.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Don’t overprocess the salmon, or the cakes will have a pasty texture.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • Our thoughts: One of the few alfredo sauces that did not start out as pasty.
    — cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • No high-domed free-speech advocates in the art world protest for the low-brow pasties-and-G-string set.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • Like Florence Pugh last week, the singer freed the nipple, choosing not to wear a bra or pasties with the look.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 10 July 2023
  • Use cool water to rinse any pasty saliva out of her mouth.
    — Outside Online, 19 July 2021
  • Stir until the flour is moistened and starting to get pasty, about 1 minute.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Her breasts are painted over with two pink daisies, which could be read as a bikini or pasties.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The pop star paired her braless look with a red heart nipple pasty, a black cowboy hat, and black trousers.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Her bra nowhere to be found, Reid instead wore tan pasties and a matching thong to cover up.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2017
  • Yes, self-tanners give pasty legs a safe, sunless glow.
    — Colleen Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Our tester liked the pasty texture, which sets this cream apart from other lotions on this list.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • Some pasty British people are getting married at the Abbey.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In the worst of cases the pasta sticks together, the sauce is tasteless or the whole recipe comes out tasting pasty.
    — Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2021
  • Immigrant miners in the U.P. took pasties in their lunch boxes while working in the mines.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2017
  • For extra color, the puff pasty can be brushed with an egg wash before baking.
    — Judy Buchenot, Naperville Sun, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Transfer the pasty to the prepared baking sheet and repeat with the remaining dough and filling.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Like pasties, a pastry or dough blanket covered the sausage and protected it from dirty hands.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
  • Low-key spots Cornish Pasty A tiny version of the original just down the street, this tight space serves big flavor with its menu of pasties and beer.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Clams make a poor impression, too, be they the few in a bowl of pasty chowder with mealy potatoes or offered as chewy fried strips.
    — Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • His paintwork, sometimes lush and lovely, can also be clogged and pasty.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • James Lester's 86-minute documentary explores the comeback of the art form, along with the high-heeled garter girls in pasties and feathers that keep it vibrant.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The Dough Miner’s classic pasty features skirt steak, along with potatoes, onions, turnips and carrots.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • There’s plenty of semi-nudity (think g-strings and pasties).
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 May 2017
  • The pic is basically the boys standing in front of a pasty white wall looking straight-up miserable.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 13 Apr. 2015
  • With motor running, slowly add oil and process until pesto looks pasty.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 21 July 2023
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pasty

2 of 2 adjective
  • She has a pasty complexion.
  • The mixture has a pasty consistency.
  • You look a little pasty. Are you feeling OK?
  • His skin was a pasty white and his light brown hair matted with sweat.
    — Carlos Valdez Lozano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The brisket was a weird pasty gray color, and the sausage wound up in a pool of grease after my first bite.
    — Chris O'Connell, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Some is more pasty, some is dry, some is yellow, brown or black.
    — Henry Ou, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Our thoughts: The crust was crispy outside, but remained pasty on the inside.
    — cleveland, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Its skin was pasty white, with a layer of lard at least two inches thick.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But over the weekend, a strong cold front swept through laying down a pasty blanket of white.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
  • That coarse meal is mixed with whole oats (so that the bars aren’t too pasty), then coated with honey and peanut butter.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 10 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a slightly pasty texture and what tastes like powdered onion.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • Still, something about the two together seemed discordant to me — the mild, slightly pasty pea with the cool-on-the-tongue fresh mint.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • However, it's been hard to find a formula that doesn’t leave a pasty, white film on my brown skin.
    — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 23 July 2021
  • Aiden English, a balding, pasty wrestler who sung a capella as part of his grand entrance and moved with a flourish, lashed the crowd.
    — Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2017
  • My pasty winter skin was noticeably more even-toned, for starters.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Their passion isn’t pretty, but awkward and pasty and explicit: two frantic strangers grappling in the muck of the moors.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The aroma must not be too strong or toasted, an indication that the meat is on a path toward pasty texture.
    — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Apart from the skin tones, which range from pasty Goth teen pale to dark brown (with sprinkle of freckles along the way), the most instantly noticeable change comes by way of Ken’s coif.
    — Adam Tschorn, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • In a food processor, pulse walnuts until finely ground but not pasty.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The sauce is a little too pasty, and the toppings situation is ungenerous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • But this particular offering is pretty average; the toppings are good enough but the sauce is too sweet and pasty.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Every once in a while — whether out of honesty, coincidence or a bizarre outbreak of good taste — those pasty old members make a choice that reflects both the state of the art and the reality of the culture.
    — Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2016
  • Pulse a few times until the ingredients are integrated but not pasty.
    — The View, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Because Miles and her pasty team typically arrived at 5:30 in the morning to begin their workday, though, they were long gone by the time guests indulged in their after-dinner desserts.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 3 Mar. 2022
  • His full lips are often coated with the pasty white film that accumulates on a perpetually dry mouth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Apparently, doing anything connected to our military, which protects the lives of those same pasty workers at Google, is just bad for their brand.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2018
  • Folks in assisted-living facilities, pasty fanboys at the mall.
    — Michael McKnight, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Although traditionally vampires have tended to be pasty and European, this volume centers on Black characters.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
  • She has a pasty complexion.
  • The mixture has a pasty consistency.

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