Sentence examples for a dumpling of from inspiring English sources

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An ageing postman scoffs his lunch, caressed by a dumpling of a waitress whose gaze is suffused with amiable lust.

Rubinstein, a dumpling of four feet eleven, was never one to pass up a weight-loss opportunity, so she preferred to walk.

Soon after Frank moves in, Olive, a dumpling of a child with oversize glasses and a seemingly endless reserve of optimism, receives unexpected word that she has been invited to compete in Little Miss Sunshine, just days away.

She's a dumpling of a woman, and with her cart and head scarf she looks as if she's going marketing, but she's actually visiting her grandson, Denis (Vasily Shevtsov), an unmarried 27-year-old captain who's been at war too long.

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My daughter, a little dumpling of a toddler, had a much lighter smear spread thinly across her waffle.

A pork and prawn dumpling, as pert as an augmented breast but much more alluring, is topped by a curl of freshly fried pork crackling; a clear dumpling of shrimp wears a bonnet of a citrus foam, and while we are meant to point and laugh at such things, here it gives a bright acidic burst at just the right moment.

You shred a Yautía and stuff it with the shrimp and it's almost like a dumpling kind of thing.

While Maya is attractive and colorful, the food is what's most memorable, with unusual dishes like roasted corn soup with a dumpling made of huitlacoche, a corn fungus that is a time-honored Mexican ingredient.

End your meal with a dumpling made of white sticky rice dough filled with coconut, chopped peanuts and sesame seeds.

And yet it's hard to find fault with the recent ascendancy of Asian dumplings on a lot of city menus, in part because it's hard to snicker at the simple, plump lovability of this globe-spanning culinary trope: the very form of a dumpling, with a hidden knob of flavor all wrapped up in a bow of dough, calls to mind a tiny present that our species has decided to pass along to itself.

You should end up with a semi-circle of a dumpling with a flattish base.

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