dollop

Example Sentences

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The main ingredients, she’ll tell you, requiring a dollop of growth, gratitude, of giving and not taking.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

That makes diversification, through international stocks and bonds, especially in emerging markets—and a dollop of gold as a buffer—good options for the years ahead.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

These tracks mostly look at the obsessions of Mr. Cole’s youth and add a dollop of earned wisdom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

They got a little candy star and a dollop of filling, plump and honest like their German ancestor.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

The owner of the house, Mr. Gitney, or as he styled himself, 03-01, had a large head and little hair and a dollop of a nose.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson