How to Use starch in a Sentence

starch

noun

• The starch on the pasta is what helps the sauce cling to it.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The starch helps the oil cling to the pasta and gives the dish a perfect — not greasy — texture.
  — America's Test Kitchen, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• Step 3 To a large wide bowl, add the thick sweet potato starch.
  — Clarissa Wei, Saveur, 30 Nov. 2023
• Simply pick a cut of steak, a salad dressing and a starch, and say yes to the onion rings.
  — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Mash the beans: Use a potato masher to mash some of the beans, which releases the starch.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• This recipe calls for potato starch, not the same thing as potato flour.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• Potatoes are rich in starch and will absorb some of the extra salt.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
• With the back of a spoon or a potato masher, mash about 1/4 of the beans, just enough to release some starch to make a thick broth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• How To Cook Rinse the dry rice two or three times in a fine mesh sieve to remove excess starch, if desired.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• That will release the starch in the rice and create a gooier consistency.
  — Cindy Dampier, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• To win over the new group of buyers the N brand is seeking, the Kona N should have a smidge less starch in its suspension.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 July 2022
• The plastic-gobbling sponges are made mostly from starch and gelatin.
  — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The starch will give the pork a craggy, super-crunchy shell—no egg wash or breadcrumbs needed.
  — Cathy Erway, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• The recyclable and repairable brush heads are made of corn starch and castor oil.
  — Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
• Arborio, or short grain rice has a high level of starch on the surface.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• Then, the leather is dried in a pasting unit, with starch paste sticking to glass frames that allow the leather to run through a hot-air drier.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
• Cutting out too many carbs can put a damper on your mood and make your body crave starch and sugar, which can lead to binges.
  — Women's Health, 25 May 2023
• For fluffy, light mashed potatoes, place the raw, cut potatoes in a pot of cold water to rinse off excess starch.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
• All of the food noted above is somewhat high in resistant starch.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
• Spread out 1 cup of coarse sweet potato starch (Asian markets, Amazon) on a large plate, and dredge both sides of each chop.
  — Cathy Erway, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• Corn starch works both as a thickener for the sauce and also helps it to clink to the vegetables better.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
• The potato collapses a bit, making a sort of starch so the cabbage is lovely and soft.
  — Charlotte Druckman / Photographs By Andrea Wyner For The Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• Using the Wrong Potato For creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes, use a potato high in starch.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
• Cooking 4-8 days Cooking breaks the starches in the piñas down to simple sugars.
  — Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• This plant uses starch granules to track the sun’s position.
  — Barbara J. King, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• Once potato plants turn yellow, the above-ground sugars have turned to starch and are in the below-ground tubers.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Serve with crusty bread or another starch, such as pasta or mashed potatoes, to soak up all the juices.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Mattix watched Rising remove some of the starch from his defense.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• The coarseness of the food and high intake of starch combined with the lack of dental care partially explain the tooth decay.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
• The waffled texture of the fabric held starch better, and could be made to look stiffer, as custom dictated at the time.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024