egg cream
noun
: a sweetened drink made with milk or cream and other ingredients
especially
: a drink consisting of milk, a flavoring syrup, and soda water
Examples of egg cream in a Sentence
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The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
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Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
There’s a milk menu, your choice of plain or chocolate or coffee (a Rhode Island specialty, made with Autocrat-brand coffee syrup, sweet and bitter); the latter two can be topped with a squirt of seltzer to make a very decent egg cream.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
Finish with your favorite sheet mask, like Too Cool for School’s egg cream mask hydration, or a deep moisturizer on your face and neck, then eye cream.
—Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Spider-Man Noir The Spider-Man of the early 20th century who fights Nazis, drinks egg creams, and is voiced by none other than Nicolas Cage returns at the end of Across the Spider-Verse to join Gwen on her search for Miles.
—Richard Newby, Vulture, 12 June 2023
Its 65 pounds per square inch of pressure — too strong for plastic bottles, hence the use of handblown glass bottles made in Europe — breathes bite into an egg cream.
—Corey Kilgannon Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 13 May 2023
An egg cream contains neither eggs nor cream.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
If a toasted bagel with lox or a chocolate egg cream isn’t comforting enough, the meatloaf will put you in a happy place with thick and salty brown gravy, mushrooms and onions.
—Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 July 2020
Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
There’s a milk menu, your choice of plain or chocolate or coffee (a Rhode Island specialty, made with Autocrat-brand coffee syrup, sweet and bitter); the latter two can be topped with a squirt of seltzer to make a very decent egg cream.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
Finish with your favorite sheet mask, like Too Cool for School’s egg cream mask hydration, or a deep moisturizer on your face and neck, then eye cream.
—Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Spider-Man Noir The Spider-Man of the early 20th century who fights Nazis, drinks egg creams, and is voiced by none other than Nicolas Cage returns at the end of Across the Spider-Verse to join Gwen on her search for Miles.
—Richard Newby, Vulture, 12 June 2023
Its 65 pounds per square inch of pressure — too strong for plastic bottles, hence the use of handblown glass bottles made in Europe — breathes bite into an egg cream.
—Corey Kilgannon Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 13 May 2023
An egg cream contains neither eggs nor cream.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
If a toasted bagel with lox or a chocolate egg cream isn’t comforting enough, the meatloaf will put you in a happy place with thick and salty brown gravy, mushrooms and onions.
—Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 July 2020
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“Egg cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cream. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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