kneading

present participle of knead

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kneading
Verb
  • Keep your greens crisp by draining, rinsing, and patting them dry before using.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At times, its puzzle-solving and chaotic arcade shooting felt like patting your head while rubbing your stomach.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As Pate was building his drama, The Runarounds were molding themselves into young adults — and a real band.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cellulose helps the gel self-heal by forming reversible hydrogen bonds across the network.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood-forming cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, working collectively doesn’t always mean things move quickly.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • What began as a chance to build a sales team and achieve financial independence turned into a mission to serve working families.
    William Jones, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 25-year-old singer from New Zealand also played with mod hairstyles, fashioning her inky black hair into a side part with foot-long braid extensions.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the inherent pressure of fashioning a collection that will receive intense scrutiny, Jacobs seems far less angst-ridden than Isaac Mizrahi in Unzipped, who nearly came to pieces on screen during the making of his fall 1994 collection.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Kneading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kneading. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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