Sentence examples for as muffin from inspiring English sources

Large quantities of cast-brass fender trivets were manufactured at Birmingham, in England, in the last quarter of the 18th century; these were suspended from the top rails of the fender as muffin and kettle stands.

He then won critical praise for his performances in two spoof operettas: Little Mary Sunshine (1961), off-Broadway, as Corporal Billy Jester, and as Muffin T Ragamuffin in The Student Gypsy (1963), his Broadway debut.

Terms such as "muffin top" and so on suggest not only that these body parts are barely part of a human being, but that they are there purely to be scrutinised and mocked by onlookers.

The pre-ITV world of the early 50s had been one of puppets such as Muffin the Mule and the Flowerpot Men, a mirror for a Britain on extremely visible strings.

Audrey Hepburn (who was spurned by DeMille for "The Ten Commandments" because she was too skinny to look good in biblical fashion) is closer to an ideal God in "Always," because as she guides Richard Dreyfuss's bratty deceased pilot away from his selfish earthly self, there's some chastening lightning in her eyes as well as muffin love.

Alcohol also provides empty calories, slows down the clearance of estrogen and metabolic waste from the tissues both of which contributes to the weight gain in the stomach area commonly referred to as muffin top or middle-age spread.

Like Cook's Illustrated I find the tangy flavour of sour cream works well with the sweetness of the fruit, adding a slight savoury note that helps to set them apart from the over-sugared confections that so often pass as muffins in this country.

They both affected connoisseurship regarding prosaic things such as muffins, hamburgers, and iced tea.

I'm always disappointed to find such confections masquerading as muffins.

The Irish playwright and journalist Hugh Leonard later proclaimed it to be "as English as muffins and monocles".

I must protest Melissa Clark's claim that "the best muffins are sweet little cakes" ("Spicy Little Cakes Disguised as Muffins," April 16).