zest
Example Sentences
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A microplane is core to the way I cook because I use a lot of lemon zest and grated garlic.
Here, she writes, “it is possible to live with great zest, to have red blood and delicate joys.”
From Los Angeles Times
Thaipusam is marked with particular zest in multicultural Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation where ethnic Indians make up about seven percent of the 34 million population.
From Barron's
A drizzle of soy sauce, a scatter of scallions, and always — always — some lemon zest, which cuts through the yolk’s richness and, once blended, produces what my brain now registers as lazy hollandaise.
From Salon
It was Margaret Mead, a pioneering anthropologist from the US, who coined the term "post-menopausal zest", more than 70 years ago.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
