Sentence examples for Pasty from inspiring English sources
adjective
Like paste, sticky.
- These mashed potatoes aren't cooked well, they are very pasty.
Cornish pasty rebel George Eustice, MP for Camborne and Redruth, a former Hague press secretary and defector from Ukip, is part of the team.
He reckons they would have fulfilled much the same function as a pasty in this country – the perfect portable, high-energy snack for a day's work in the fields or out on fishing boats.
Its principal measures had been briefed beforehand, leaving people to digest the "pasty tax".
"And the odd Cornish pasty and fish and chips".
The word, originally coined by the writers of the political satire The Thick of It, and adopted by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to describe the caravan and pasty taxes and other political blunders and U-turns of the government's 2012 budget, has made it into the Oxford Dictionaries online.
We walked along the talcum-white sand, marvelling at the early-morning activity: fishermen, basket weavers, dog walkers, all revelling in the island's bounty as much as five pasty gawpers who'd arrived from Gatwick less than eight hours earlier.
A columnist describes Vicky Pollard, an archetypal chav created for a TV comedy programme, as emblematic of the aforementioned "dismal ineducables" and "pasty-faced, lard-gutted slappers" supposedly infesting the nation's public housing.
Changes in eating habits are part of it, says Larry File of the Cornish Pasty Association (CPA), who reckons pasties are the perfect lunch for time-pressed workers.
The state is also fairly ethnically and racially homogenous something one can't help but notice amid all the pasty-faced computer programmers at PorcFest.The question then becomes what to do about places where gun violence is more common, such as Chicago, where urban poverty, poor schools, higher unemployment and racial friction create an often toxic mix.
It plays out kind of the same way.This sets up Mr Franken's joke about the likelihood of electing a Jewish president.Forget that he's humorless and pasty-looking.
The domestic market runs from school trips to slightly riskier "adrenalin sports", such as white-water rafting and cliff-jumping, and full-blast "survival schools", where pasty-faced desk-jockeys learn how to skin rabbits and live off the land, under the supervision of a grizzled instructor with a military background.
