Sentence examples for decent pastry from inspiring English sources

● Sex is what sad grownups call a halfway decent pastry.

I'd love to go to Brazil, in the same way I'd love to go paragliding, or learn how to make decent pastry: it's another entry on the list of things I've never done that I'd quite like to do one day.

From a selection of decent pastries, lemon tart was the star.

Seven years ago, a farsighted former City worker called Venetia Strangways-Booth decided a rundown street in Clapton, east London, needed a proper cafe, one that served decent pastries and excellent espresso.

Decent, light pastry, good fillings – and reheated without the tell-tale signs of a microwave mauling.

They were well seasoned with black pepper and onion and wouldn't be out of place in a decent gastro-pub with their buttery, flaky pastry and rich, slightly-caramelising pork filling.

If you want a decent hit of grey meat in water-crust pastry you must go to Goodfellow & Steven on the Perth Road.

You can do either at Bella Paulista (Rua Haddock Lobo, 354; 55-11-3214-3347; bellapaulista.com), a padoca on steroids where the late-night crowd feasts on everything from pastries (very good) to oversize hot sandwiches (good) to salads (decent) to pizza (not so much).

But a farrago called venison Provencal brought the decent meat chopped and smothered under coarsely chopped vegetables, the whole concealed by a pastry lid.

That one was decent but not worth a buy!" A third found her health regimen insufficient: "Yum, a diet of pizza, pastries, alcohol and buffalo wings (and a lil cocaine) with no time spent exercising . . .

3. Lament that there is no place in the neighborhood to get a decent hamburger/salad/pastry, then eat in the same four places anyway.