Explore Doughnut through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ring or halo. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Doughnut meaning
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
- Any object in the shape of a torus.
- A circular life raft.
Using Doughnut
- The main meaning on this page is: A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream. | Any object in the shape of a torus. | A circular life raft.
- Useful related words include: ring, halo, annulus, anulus.
- In the example corpus, doughnut often appears in combinations such as: doughnut shop, the doughnut, and doughnut.
Context around Doughnut
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doughnut
- In this selection, "doughnut" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, coffee, glazed, chocolate, shop, shops and preference stand out and add context to how "doughnut" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 342 coffee doughnut shops in and a chocolate doughnut. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doughnut" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doughnut
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Next, she moves onto the doughnut glaze. (7 words)
A doughnut shop in downtown Yazoo City. (7 words)
At least he didn't ask for a Hertz Doughnut. (10 words)
Las Vegas’ Pinkbox Doughnuts was named in a list of “The Best Doughnut Places Across the U.S.,” compiled by TastingTable.com. PinkBox recently opened a new shop at the Plaza and has several other locations around town. (38 words)
To satisfy your sweet tooth, the dessert menu offers a Ukrainian doughnut that’s as fluffy as a beignet and filled with lemon and lavender curd or a pistachio Neapolitan with brown butter ice cream and pistachio cream. (38 words)
In light of the findings, behavioural psychologist, Jo Hemmings, has revealed what your doughnut preference say about your personality – from the reserved, traditionalist glazed doughnut fans, to the party-lovers who would munch on a chocolate doughnut. (37 words)
Celebrate the last night of Chanukah with a Giant Menorah Lighting, Gelt drop from a firetruck, a gourmet doughnut bar, games, raffles, Chanukah treats, and an appearance by the Dreidel Mascot! (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
In light of the findings, behavioural psychologist, Jo Hemmings, has revealed what your doughnut preference say about your personality – from the reserved, traditionalist glazed doughnut fans, to the party-lovers who would munch on a chocolate doughnut.
So, today, go to the doughnut shop and get a doughnut.
According to a Providence Journal article, the state features both the highest number and highest density of coffee/doughnut shops per capita in the country, with 342 coffee/doughnut shops in the state.
Already, investors have shorted fast-moving consumer goods stocks, such as doughnut chains, and healthcare stocks that treat the symptoms of obesity, such as ResMed, which makes machines for sleep apnoea.
At least he didn't ask for a Hertz Doughnut.
Created by cocktail bar Mother Mercy, the signature fizz is a nod to Greggs’ Pink Jammie doughnut, with raspberry, apple and fresh dough flavours topped with prosecco.
Dayna Farrington pitted Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, and Co-op against each other in an ultimate taste test to decide the best supermarket jam doughnut.
For orchards in Cumberland County with cider and doughnut options choose all three buttons.
I do enjoy this gourmet artisanal doughnut revolution that’s been going on for the last decade.
Las Vegas’ Pinkbox Doughnuts was named in a list of “The Best Doughnut Places Across the U.S.,” compiled by TastingTable.com. PinkBox recently opened a new shop at the Plaza and has several other locations around town.
Next, she moves onto the doughnut glaze.
She rode in a 2.5-ton truck with a pop-out service window and a doughnut maker.
To satisfy your sweet tooth, the dessert menu offers a Ukrainian doughnut that’s as fluffy as a beignet and filled with lemon and lavender curd or a pistachio Neapolitan with brown butter ice cream and pistachio cream.
What could have been a fun Funfetti-style doughnut, all warm and rainbow-dotted, got ruined by excess frosting and sprinkles that made our teeth hurt.
A doughnut shop in downtown Yazoo City.
And we chuckled as we reminisced about first grade when Chuckie White invited all of the kids on the school bus to his family’s doughnut shop.
Approximately 300 yards downhill from the “Doughnut Shop” two deputies encountered Evers when, unaware of the deputies, Evers suddenly emerged from brushy terrain “eight feet away from us,” as a deputy described the encounter.
But there are not any Minnesota locations of Krispy Kreme which is a little odd, because the company that owns the doughnut chain is said to be the same one that owns Caribou Coffee, JAB Holding Company.
Celebrate the last night of Chanukah with a Giant Menorah Lighting, Gelt drop from a firetruck, a gourmet doughnut bar, games, raffles, Chanukah treats, and an appearance by the Dreidel Mascot!
Cozy up with mulled wine and complimentary vegan doughnut holes from Dough Joy at this festive gathering at Pine Lake Cellars.
Common combinations with doughnut
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: