Spicy is an English word with synonyms like piquant or risque. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Spicy in a sentence
Spicy meaning
- Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
- Of a flavor, provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin or a similar chemical.
- Of a food, flavor, or odor, tangy, zesty, or pungent.
Using Spicy
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or containing spice. | Of a flavor, provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin or a similar chemical. | Of a food, flavor, or odor, tangy, zesty, or pungent.
- Useful related words include: piquant, risque, racy, naughty.
- In the example corpus, spicy often appears in combinations such as: and spicy, the spicy, spicy and.
Context around Spicy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spicy
- In this selection, "spicy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hot, non, guac, food, chili and fries stand out and add context to how "spicy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adding a spicy sauce to and all out spicy guac spicy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spicy" sits close to words such as blasted, brink and chloe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spicy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Another spicy dish that players can cook is the Spicy Eel. (11 words)
A banished prince comes with all kinds of spicy and forbidden love. (12 words)
Agnolotti is filled with leek, guanciale and pork shoulder, and served with a spicy ’nduja sauce. (16 words)
After two years, Shake Shack brings back spicy chicken sandwich with new heat level and accompanying itemsThis is the Hot Chick'n's third return, and it's coming with new menu items, including Hot Chick'n Bites, Hot Spicy Fries and Hot Spicy Cheese Fries. (46 words)
Cha ca La Vong Bun cha The abundance of spices produced by central Vietnam’s mountainous terrain makes this region’s cuisine notable for its spicy food, which sets it apart from the two other regions of Vietnam where foods are mostly not spicy. (44 words)
When asked by FMT to recommend three of his favourite dishes, Ketkaew named Pla Goong, a spicy prawn salad with lemongrass, Tom Yum Goong, a spicy lemongrass soup with prawns and Pad-Thai Noodles, stir-fried rice noodles with prawns and tamarind sauce. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
With this newfound love of The Spice, I’m going all out; spicy guac, spicy chili bean chips, spicy curry, spicy fries.
After two years, Shake Shack brings back spicy chicken sandwich with new heat level and accompanying itemsThis is the Hot Chick'n's third return, and it's coming with new menu items, including Hot Chick'n Bites, Hot Spicy Fries and Hot Spicy Cheese Fries.
Another spicy dish that players can cook is the Spicy Eel.
Spicy Buffalo Chicken Snack Wrap: Made with 100% Canadian-raised seasoned chicken topped with shredded lettuce, shredded cheese and spicy buffalo sauce wrapped in a soft white flour tortilla.
The veg variant of this pasta pizza is smothered in a spicy Harissa sauce that gives it its signature spicy flavour and is topped ith delicious pasta.
Cozy Corn Elote with butter, spicy lime mayo, and your choice of cotija cheese, cheese puffs, or spicy cheese puffs, $6.
Firstly, the food made is always extremely spicy and has almost no flavour besides the spice, and I cannot tolerate spicy food at all.
When asked by FMT to recommend three of his favourite dishes, Ketkaew named Pla Goong, a spicy prawn salad with lemongrass, Tom Yum Goong, a spicy lemongrass soup with prawns and Pad-Thai Noodles, stir-fried rice noodles with prawns and tamarind sauce.
On the spicy side, the Hot Mess Bloody is made with Denver's own Blank & Booth Hot Mess Hatch green chile whiskey, and the spicy cucumber margarita is rimmed with chile salt.
Spicy food can actually cool you by increasing perspiration and blood circulation, so maybe try adding a spicy sauce to meal to get you feeling warmer and overall happier.
As a result, the foods there are often less spicy than those in other regions. citation Black pepper is used in place of chilis as the most popular ingredient to produce spicy flavors.
Cha ca La Vong Bun cha The abundance of spices produced by central Vietnam’s mountainous terrain makes this region’s cuisine notable for its spicy food, which sets it apart from the two other regions of Vietnam where foods are mostly not spicy.
Most Sichuan dishes are spicy, although a typical meal includes non-spicy dishes to cool the palate.
Other well-known dishes are Bulgogi (불고기), grilled marinated beef, Gimbap (김밥), and Tteokbokki (떡볶이), a spicy snack consisting of rice cake seasoned with gochujang or a spicy chili paste.
Spicy and non-spicy tapioca chips Production seeAlso Cassava plant Colored, translucent tapioca sticks Small, opaque pearl tapioca before soaking Tapioca is one of the purest forms of starch food, and the production varies from region to region.
A banished prince comes with all kinds of spicy and forbidden love.
According to the American Cancer Society, spicy and sugary foods tend to make people crave cigarettes even more.
Across the Red Skillet Kitchen special menu, this day’s spicy shrimp and Andouille sausage gumbo was one of my personal favorites.
Agnolotti is filled with leek, guanciale and pork shoulder, and served with a spicy ’nduja sauce.
A key aspect of real representation is when you can see yourself on screen, but this has been difficult in Hollywood, given the tropes of the spicy Latina or the Hot Cheetos girl.
Common combinations with spicy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and spicy 21×
- the spicy 20×
- spicy and 17×
- spicy chicken 11×
- spicy food 10×
- with spicy 10×
- of spicy 7×
- in spicy 6×
- spicy sauce 5×
- hot spicy 4×