scrumptious
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere we learn that, during the 1978 coup d’état, the hotel’s chefs “whipped up special dishes, turning tender steaks and scrumptious cakes into weapons of distraction.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Mikel Kruger-Johnsen scooped in a scrumptious second, but the two goals the 19-year-old sandwiched were not so unstoppable.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
A well-tuned ensemble found the comic joy and slathered it around like scrumptious barbecue sauce as questions about fate, family duty and moral choice were hotly debated.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024
Knowing that my baby’s first cry would reverberate through the world before noon was strange and scrumptious.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
It sat there until the steam stopped rising, until the normally scrumptious smell of it disappeared.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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