How to Use cookie in a Sentence

cookie

noun
  • She put a batch of cookies into the oven.
  • You are one smart cookie.
  • This recipe makes about two dozen cookies.
  • Don't worry about her—she's a tough cookie.
  • Using your thumb or the round end of a small wooden pestle or spoon dipped in flour, make a well in center of each cookie.
    Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Use short loops of baker's twine to hang seasonal cookie cutters on a single long ribbon.
    Anna Logan, Country Living, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Remove the bowl with the cookie dough from the refrigerator.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Bake cookies: Bake cookies in preheated oven for 8 minutes.
    Kermilia White, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Country Christmas songs can be as saccharine as a holiday cookie.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Or, try these oat and pecan brittle cookies, a Hormati fave that not only incorporates whole oats into the dough, but also oat flour.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The treats come in four flavors, including a no-bake oats and honey treat, chili and frozen strawberry treats and a cookie-like doggie biscuit also made with yams.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Though bordering on cliché cookie-cutter fan service, the content at times stays fresh through the macabre tone and gothic characters of the Addams clan.
    Lee Escobedo, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • So grab a Christmas cookie, wear your ugliest Christmas sweater and prepare to be entranced by the magic of the holiday season.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The Gingerdead Man riffs on the premise of Child’s Play, except in this case, the serial killer’s soul ends up in…a gingerbread cookie.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
  • During the last presidential election in 2020, Rudd gave out cookies in New York.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Asian Americans are a hugely diverse, complicated group, and students don’t fit into cookie-cutter stereotypes.
    Amy Qin, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The cheese pull, the fork breaking through the crust and the snap of a crisp cookie.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The owners even keep a bowl of cookies by the counter to take.
    Blake Gillespie, SPIN, 11 June 2024
  • En route, guests will get the chance to snack on hot chocolate and cookies.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The chocolate was so rich that one bite was enough for me, and the cookie base was sogged through.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The designs in the mold make your cookies look like artful tiles.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Sprinkle three lines of crushed cookies across the top of the cake to create the pumpkin patch rows.
    Beth Branch, Country Living, 27 July 2023
  • Nili Lotan is going to have to bake a lot more cookies.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The locals want a bite out of Messi, just not in cookie form.
    The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2023
  • To check for doneness, lightly touch the top of a cookie.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Was ahead in count on Barnes too and just left a cookie curveball right in the middle of the zone.
    Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
  • Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means the cookies have to be soft enough to fall apart.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Put one of the cicadas on top of each cookie and lightly press down.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 8 May 2024
  • The bakery sells cookies, cupcakes, dessert bars and cakes to go.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • There are 33 cookie recipes, two for crepes, and 31 for other desserts.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023

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