How to Use cookie-cutter in a Sentence

cookie-cutter

1 of 2 adjective

• Place a wick in the center of each cookie-cutter.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
• Think cookie-cutter homes, perhaps with a dog park or pool.
  — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
• And in a world of cookie-cutter brands, that's something worth keeping an eye on.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• There’s nothing cookie-cutter about them.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
• The sequel did away with this cookie-cutter idea of taste and embraced the whimsy.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
• Down a steep bank lay a row of cookie-cutter houses, now up to their eaves in muddy water.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
• In short, a chief of staff is anything but a cookie-cutter position.
  — Julia Dhar, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
• But city living is not all tall towers and cookie-cutter apartments.
  — Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
• Forget cookie-cutter trends—your home should be a reflection of you.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2025
• Yes, there are standards, but there is no perfect playbook or cookie-cutter recipe.
  — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
• Overall, cookie-cutter kitchens will slowly fade out.
  — Madeline Bilis, The Spruce, 30 May 2026
• This isn’t a state of cookie-cutter dispensaries and generic brands.
  — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
• It was erected in an era when many other cities had built round, cookie-cutter stadiums.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• Gone are the days of cookie-cutter gowns with predictable lace trim and mermaid silhouettes.
  — Kedean Smith, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
• That's why cookie-cutter approaches don't work.
  — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• Vintage Prep Classic prep is back, but not in the stiff, cookie-cutter way.
  — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
• Combat a cookie-cutter home with signs of life, from a cat tree to children's art, to make the space feel dynamic.
  — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026
• And sync is neither a cookie-cutter business nor one easily learned.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
• This type of consultant doesn’t pitch cookie-cutter frameworks.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
• The home is encircled by a white picket fence, but this residence is far from cookie-cutter.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
• But don’t start snoozing yet—this is no cookie-cutter procedural.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2025
• You were never meant to have a cookie-cutter life path, so get experimental.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
• Shaggy never fit the cookie-cutter template of a reggae and dancehall star.
  — Rob Kenner, VIBE.com, 11 July 2026
• The old playbook of one-off, cookie-cutter posts is becoming less effective.
  — Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
• No cookie-cutter modern stadium would do.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
• Wanting your home to feel more custom and less cookie-cutter isn't a new or groundbreaking ambition.
  — Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
• True crime is a crowded genre with so many cookie-cutter stories exploiting tragedies for voyeuristic films and series.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• There’s hardly a cookie-cutter hotel to be found in Washington.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
• That’s what dilutes the art and creates cookie-cutter songs where everyone starts sounding like each other.
  — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
• Despite the scale, there’s an amazing lack of cookie-cutter repetition or of areas that feel generic or padded out.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023

cookie cutter

2 of 2 noun

• Use a cookie cutter or a sharp knife to cut shapes out of the dough sheet.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Cut out shapes with cookie cutters and poke a hole in the top with a straw.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• Stamped means the knife blades were punched cookie cutter-like out of a sheet of steel.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Cut dough either with a knife or break out fun cookie cutters.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2017
• Or check out this set, which also comes with a cookie cutter.
  — Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
• Get out those old cookie cutters; many kids have never seen them.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• What better way to learn about the world than through its cookie cutters?
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Use 4-inch round cookie cutters to cut out, rerolling scraps as needed.
  — Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
• The yield will vary depending on the size and shape of your cookie cutter.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• Cut the dough into squares with a knife or use a festive cookie cutter to make shapes.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Throw in a few cookie cutters too so they can get started on their first baking project.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
• Cut out with 2-inch round (plain or scalloped-edge) cookie cutter.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
• Use a pineapple cookie cutter and some polymer clay to shape this adorable ring dish.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2022
• With a cookie cutter or drinking glass, cut two-inch circles in the dough.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2024
• Cut with cookie cutters and transfer to the lined baking sheets.
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
• Older kids can help cut fruit into shapes with cookie cutters.
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 21 Dec. 2025
• My sisters haul baking sheets, bags of flour, cookie cutters and tins from their house to mine.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Fans used the simple design as a cookie cutter and sewed it into quilts.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
• The ears of a bunny cookie cutter can become petals for a flower.
  — Alana Allred, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Press the mixture into ring molds or large cookie cutters to form the patties.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Using floured cookie cutters, cut out cookies and place them on the prepared sheets.
  — Woman's Day, 4 Nov. 2014
• On a night of knocking on at least a dozen doors, the faces behind them were anything but cookie cutter.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• Using a 1¾-inch round cookie cutter, cut the dough into rounds.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2021
• This set of five cookie cutters for just $7 includes a cat, witch hat, bat, pumpkin, and ghost.
  — Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2024
• Use floured 2 1/2-inch cookie cutters to cut out shapes, rerolling scraps as needed.
  — Jessica Saari Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
• Cut eight circles from the slices using a 3-inch round cookie cutter (or the rim of a glass or food can).
  — Kirsten Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2011
• Using a 1-inch round cookie cutter, cut a hole in the center of half the cookies.
  — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2022
• Take a round cookie cutter or apple corer and cut out circles in a fun pattern of your choice.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
• Lightly toast the bread slices then, using a cookie cutter or the top of a jar, stamp out 1½-inch bread rounds.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2020
• Use a 4-inch biscuit or cookie cutter to cut out four circles from the sheet of puff pastry.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 5 Jan. 2016