clotted

Example Sentences

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One tenacious fallacy about Shakespeare is that his speeches are always clotted with gargantuan words; Macbeth’s “multitudinous seas incarnadine” is a classic example.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

High-fat creams generally contain 30-40% fat and include whipping cream, double cream and clotted cream.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

At The Wingfield Restaurant, tennis lovers can feast on a three-course menu with options like gin-cured Loch Duart salmon, venison Wellington and a clotted cream summer pudding.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

We enter a symphonic troposphere where clouds are clotted harmonies, where turbulence is a string orchestra plucking and strumming violins and violas like guitars.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

The ink given her was too old/too thick to use and clotted badly in the pen nib.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein