How to Use doughnut in a Sentence

doughnut

noun
  • Those doughnuts still have a place in our hearts, of course.
    Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The doughnut giveaway starts Monday and will run through the end of the year.
    Nat Ives, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Grab a pumpkin old-fashioned doughnut at one of the 16 Stan’s Donuts in the city.
    Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This Friday is a good day to grab a doughnut, or a dozen.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 2 June 2021
  • The round yeast doughnut is filled with cream and topped with chocolate glaze.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Check out our Facebook page to see the next fun doughnut.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Dessert is the ube hotteok ($9), an ube ice cream on top of a warm doughnut.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This cozy dessert tastes a bit like a glazed doughnut and a coffee cake.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The same process reduces a cylinder to a line and a doughnut to a circle.
    Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Pink in a Blanket Doughnuts Each dozen comes with a free bag of donut holes.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
  • My sons can stand on their toes and point to the doughnuts of their choice at the doughnut table.
    Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Potato flour in the dough mix provides the doughnut with its light texture — and the Tato half of the shop’s name.
    Jennifer Kornegay, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As Jennifer explains, her dad used to own a doughnut shop in the same space.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2023
  • If cheesecake is your dessert of choice, Krispy Kreme has a trio of new doughnuts for you.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The customer was curious about the small cup that came with the doughnut.
    Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • While warm, use tongs to dip each doughnut in sugar to coat.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The mash used for the ale included 500 Slow Rise doughnuts.
    Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The cake is moist, and this fruit jelly is good — kind of like the inside of a jelly doughnut.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the premise of Son’s Donuts and Pops, the doughnut shop that cooks miniature doughnuts fresh to order.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • And there’s a layer of what tastes like gooey sugar paste fusing the doughnut to the peanuts.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • The arrival of spring means the arrival of four new doughnut flavors at Krispy Kreme.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Just show up at a Krispy Kreme today and pick your free doughnut.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2020
  • The one thing the incoming chefs couldn’t erase on the menu was the Tabard’s doughnut, a longtime staple on the brunch menu.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The clip ends with Affleck walking out of the shop with his large iced coffee and a doughnut.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The red Chevy did a victory lap around the track with a showy doughnut spin at the end, as fans cheered and honked on the frozen bay.
    Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • This offer is valid until the end of 2021 and can be used for one doughnut per day.
    Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Hickey noshed on a doughnut and cracked a joke about his colleague’s slow walk down the steps.
    Spencer Nusbaum, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Not long ago, a homeless man hit an 8-year-old boy in the face near the local doughnut shop.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Their feat has been compared to resolving the shape of a doughnut on the surface of the Moon from Earth.
    Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Or grab coffee and doughnuts at the adorable Thomas' Donut and Snack Shop and bring them to the beach to enjoy under an umbrella.
    Staff Author, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2025

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