Examples of poppy seed in a Sentence
Sprinkle poppy seeds on the bread before baking.
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Floss picks for discreetly handling that spinach or poppy seed situation.
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
It’s often forgotten about in a sea of poppy seed chicken and lasagna, but exhausted moms and dads need something hearty in the morning, too.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
The poppy seeds and leopard spots, meantime, resemble markings left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
It’s often forgotten about in a sea of poppy seed chicken and lasagna, but exhausted moms and dads need something hearty in the morning, too.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
The poppy seeds and leopard spots, meantime, resemble markings left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for poppy seed
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“Poppy seed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poppy%20seed. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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