knead
Example Sentences
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Though its smell is hardly appetizing, the cloth is surrounded by a group of women, each with her hands on the folds to knead, slap, punch and beat the cloth into shape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Workers don't like to wake up early to knead dough by hand, Mr Hur says softly.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025
I remember standing in my kitchen alone, elbows dusted with flour, watching a dozen strangers knead dough on Zoom.
From Salon • May 27, 2025
Nouman said his first job is to start a small fire to cook breakfast, while his wife and daughters knead dough for flatbread and then wash their utensils and metal cooking griddle.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
I’d made some of what Perilee called “sore finger biscuits”—when your fingers were too sore to knead the dough, you’d pinch off balls and bake them.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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