string cheese

noun

: cheese formed usually into sticks that can be pulled apart in narrow strips

Examples of string cheese in a Sentence

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Her full lineup includes chips and salsa, a jar of dill pickles, string cheese, a veggie tray, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, wine, lemon Spindrift, Diet Coke, water and Chomps meat sticks. Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026 Her rider includes chips and salsa, a jar of dill pickles, string cheese, a veggie tray, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, wine, lemon Spindrift, Diet Coke, water and Chomps meat sticks. Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026 Its string cheese, the cheapest in town, is the company’s Happy Farms brand. Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 The shortcuts here are clutch: no-boil manicotti go straight into the baking dish, each one stuffed with a stick of string cheese (instead of a fussy filling), then smothered in jarred tomato sauce. Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for string cheese

Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of string cheese was in 1974

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“String cheese.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20cheese. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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