How to Use mastic in a Sentence
mastic
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Turkish delight), in flavors like sour cherry or mastic.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2024
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Other tests throughout the kitchen confirmed mold in four locations and asbestos in the black flooring mastic.
—Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
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Booza is typically made with milk, cream, sugar, salep (orchid root tubers) and mastic, a natural tree resin also used to make gum.
—Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2025
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His small team produces 100 kilos of the stuff here each day, in flavors like sour cherry, rose with blackberries, and mastic, a type of tree resin.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2024
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In fact, the fall is an excellent time to witness the harvest of mastic or mastiha, a resin tapped from an evergreen shrub here, which has been renowned since the time of Hippocrates, who used it for digestive issues and as a breath freshener.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 21 Aug. 2025
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The damage uncovered Contractors discovered the extent of the deterioration in January after removing tile and black mastic from Aviator’s kitchen floor.
—Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
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