How to Use pulp in a Sentence
- I like to strain the pulp out of my orange juice.
- The fruit has sweet, juicy pulp and hard, black seeds.
- The grain was mashed into pulp.
- The boxes will be turned back into pulp and be made into newspapers.
- This paper is made from inexpensive wood pulp.
- He made a little extra money by writing stories for a science fiction pulp.
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There will be only a small amount of pulp.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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Rinse the seeds to remove the pulp and residue.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026
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Scoop the seeds and pulp into a small, clean jar.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
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Use a soup spoon to scrape out the pulp and membranes.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
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This is made from a pulp that is then turned into fibers.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2025
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This is made from a pulp that is then turned into fibers.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2026
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Pumpkin pulp will last three to five days in the fridge.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
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Strain lime juice through a fine-mesh sieve to remove any pulp.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
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Drinks that keep pulp and seeds provide more fiber than strained juices.
—Brandi Jones, Health, 23 Feb. 2026
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Use a fig, cut it in half, and remove the fleshy pulp and seeds.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
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His skin toughened against the acidic pulp that the plant spat when cleaved.
—Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
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There was not much pulp around the stone but the flavor was sharp and rich.
—Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
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Take any half lemon and scoop out any remaining pulp.
—Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 7 June 2026
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When ripe, the pulp is ideal for baking.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
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When the pulp is removed, the liquid takes up less space.
—Lindsey Desoto, Health, 5 Mar. 2026
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If starting with pulp, follow a recipe for tamarind paste.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
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Just soak it and blend it with wet scrap paper to create the pulp.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
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Just soak it and blend it with wet scrap paper to create the pulp.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
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The lemons have pink pulp sacks, giving the flesh a pinkish hue.
—Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026
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If desired, strain juice through fine-mesh sieve to remove any pulp.
—Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
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Cut a hole in the bottom of a large pumpkin, and scoop out pulp and seeds.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
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Use a spoon to remove the pulp, then poke a drainage hole in the bottom of the rind.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
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Cut potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop pulp into a large bowl.
—Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2026
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Use the large holes of a box grater to scrape pulp and liquid from cobs and add to the kernels.
—Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
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After the wood is pulped, it’s turned into a fiber that is then spun into a yarn.
—Anh-Minh Le, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
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Elephants sway from side to side, orcas grind their teeth to pulp against concrete walls.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2021
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Some of his trees have outgrown nearby saw mills and will have to be pulped for lower prices.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
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The Dutch version of Endgame that includes the names has been pulled and pulped.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Pulping wood turned out to be not all that different from refining oil.
—Christopher Leonard, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
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The tool wipes away pulp from the inside, outside and bottom of the cutting blade in one swipe, while protecting your fingers.
—Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2022
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Word was, he had been ordered, at the last minute, to pulp the first run of booklets and to rush out new versions, stripped of cost calculations.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
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Pieces of timber too small to process as logs—including offcuts and thinnings from the forest—are chipped and pulped to make paper.
—The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
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Approximately 70 million tons of this stuff is pulped every year, but most of it is burned for fuel.
—Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
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In some areas, there is hardly any margin for the imperfect pines that are pulped for paper and particleboard.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
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In the basement of the Syayvo book store in Kyiv, hundreds of Russian language books stand piled, waiting to be pulped.
—Guy Davies, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
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If the asteroid is large enough, the overpressure would effectively pulp victims' insides.
—Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 28 June 2018
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But tons and tons of books are discarded globally each year, either pulped by publishers, shredded by libraries or tossed out when people empty old houses.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
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Southern yellow pine, which is sawed into lumber and pulped into paper and particle board, is one of the region’s top agricultural products.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018
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The standard method for recycling cotton involves mechanically pulping it to break it down into raw material that can be reused.
—Marc Bain, Quartzy, 16 Aug. 2019
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In Sumatra and Borneo, forests have been pulped to make way for palm oil plantations, with devastating consequences for orangutans.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 June 2016
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Its supreme qualities shine brightest when the fruit is freshly pulped, possessing a bewitching, complex tartness that’s audaciously floral with a hint of salinity.
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2024
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In the second half of the century, entire libraries were transferred to microform, spun on microfilm reels, or served on tiny microfiche platters, while the crumbling originals were thrown away or pulped.
—Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
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The little ticket-taker in everyone longs for hiatus, release, the distant crash of buildings tumbling down, perhaps even not so distant, but just far enough away to still keep safe while last century’s rubble is pulped.
—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
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The proprietary alkaline pulping method used to produce its lyocell is cleaner and more efficient than traditional chemical approaches, lowering the environmental footprint from the start while improving production efficiency.
—Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 29 Dec. 2025
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Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / Getty Images The tank was designed to hold 900,000 gallons of a hazardous chemical known as white liquor, a chemical brew that contains sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and disodium carbonate and is used in the paper-pulping process, officials have said.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 31 May 2026
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