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Meanings of starchy in English
Consisting of or containing starch.
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Examples for "stiff"
Examples for "stiff"
1
May 20:-Requiresspoon-feeding; sleeps well; remains always in bed in stiff attitudes.
2
But the process was marked by stiff political and trade union opposition.
3
My body is stiff after a long day working on the house.
4
Extending that to banks, however, is likely to stir up stiff opposition.
5
Despite the stiff penalties, illegal gambling has grown exponentially in recent years.
1
Yet beneath the buckram you always feel that there is a heart.
2
It produces indigo in great abundance; and they also make much fine buckram.
3
The use of buckram has been mostly abandoned by the libraries.
4
Making frames for hats follows-theframes are of wire and buckram.
5
What one saw was not buckram, whalebone, paint, and false hair.
Usage of starchy in English
1
Green vegetables, however, are not starchy enough to use on their own.
2
The dumplings are also great alternatives to rice or other starchy choices.
3
From these experiments determine in which class-animalor vegetable-thestarchy foods belong.
4
White flour contains little more than the starchy elements of the grain.
5
Serve with your favourite starchy sides and add blackberry sauce as desired.
6
A starchy and a green vegetable; as, for instance, potatoes and cabbage.
7
Between the ages of nine and twelve months begin giving starchy foods.
8
Next we tested the starchy potato most readily available nationwide, the russet.
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I kind of can't stand a starchy potato as a mashed potato.
10
They were widely eaten before the potato became the staple starchy vegetable.
11
They go well with flesh or milk or nuts or starchy foods.
12
He recommended the sweet fruits-figs ,dates ,raisins ,prunes-insteadofthe starchy foods.
13
Avoid pastry and starchy food, such as potatoes, beans and white bread.
14
Daniels is supremely well-cast, catching Comey's starchy righteousness and tendency to showboat.
15
The acid fruits should not be given in the meals containing starchy foods.
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The patient should avoid the starchy and sugar foods as much as possible.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common