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succulent as in: succulent roast beef

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  • The peaches are succulent and bursting with flavor.
    succulent = full of juice
  • A soft rain had fallen most of the day, and now as the sun neared the horizon, the forest formed its own fog that drifted through succulent glades.   (source)
    succulent = wet or delightful
  • There was one thing that hadn't changed in Kabul after all: The kabob was as succulent and delicious as I remembered.   (source)
    succulent = juicy and delightful
  • We were both really full, but dessert—a succulently rich cremeux surrounded by passion fruit—was too good not to at least nibble, so we lingered for a while over dessert, trying to get hungry again.   (source)
    succulently = delightful
  • There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable.   (source)
  • She wore a black necklace which hung down in three coils just above her full, succulent breasts.   (source)
  • A cutting of aloe vera that Lena gave me did not belong anywhere because we had no other succulents.   (source)
    succulents = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a succulent chunk.   (source)
    succulent = highly enjoyable (or juicy)
  • I ran to the cactus and gathered a shovelful of the succulent, seedy pears.   (source)
    succulent = juicy
  • Like chicken wing appetizing or succulent hamburger appetizing?   (source)
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  • He kept journals about every one of the four hundred varieties of cactus and succulents—some of which he had never seen, others of which he had smuggled into the country via a friend.   (source)
    succulents = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.   (source)
    succulent = highly tasty or enjoyable
  • I contented myself with books — Perennials for the Rock Garden, Desert Succulents for Northern Climes, and the like.†   (source)
  • He hauled stones in off the desert and built a small rock garden outside our doorway, with succulents and a patch of moss.†   (source)
  • The shrunken fruits grow fat and purplish red; the branches sag under their succulence.†   (source)
  • You can see giant, distorted heads of corn growing higher than small trees; big saprophytes growing on rocks, with their roots trailing out on the wind like bunches of hair, fathoms long; in some places there are fungus colonies that you'd take at first sight for big white boulders; you can see succulents like barrels, but as big as small houses, and with spines ten feet long.†   (source)
  • What a litter—what a confusion; with here birth, here death; succulence and sweetness; effort and anguish; and myself always running hither and thither.†   (source)
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succulent as in: succulent plant type

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  • That part of the desert is dotted with various types of succulent plants, such as cacti and agave.
  • He welcomed the thorn bush, experimented with gnarled Japanese fig trees, retreated to pragmatic vegetables or spears of the succulent.   (source)
    succulent = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • He was a founder of the Cactus and Succulent Society.   (source)
  • THE CEYLON CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY   (source)
  • Here is the winged thunbergia, the large snouted justicia, the mustard tree of Scripture with its succulent leaves and infinitesimal berries.   (source)
    succulent = filled with water
  • In his last years my father was a founding member of "The Ceylon Cactus and Succulent Society" and this interest began during his time in Kuttapitiya—all because of his devious and defensive nature.   (source)
    succulent = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
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  • The meals were succulent; Richard made quite a fuss over them, and especially over the wines.†   (source)
  • He saw cooks wearing white paper hats, and plates of steaming food on the counter awaiting serving-food in the most succulent colors: deep red sauces, yellow butter creams.†   (source)
  • To him strawberries were a holy mystery, jewels of sugar, deep red gems, sweet orbs, succulent rubies.†   (source)
  • He contemplated Harry for a moment as though he was a particularly large and succulent piece of pheasant, then said, " 'The Chosen One,' they're calling you now!"†   (source)
  • The crabs had arrived from Eastwatch only this morning, packed in a barrel of snow, and they were succulent.†   (source)
  • The salty fish flesh, the succulent shellfish.†   (source)
  • She always allowed enough time to cook food perfectly, trying to organize her activities in such a way that she had the peacefulness she needed in the kitchen to be able to prepare succulent dishes exactly as they should be prepared.†   (source)
  • Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.†   (source)
  • Their single succulent spathes ranged from shades of mottled black to blood red and glistening orange.†   (source)
  • The fittings in his house were worn but painstakingly repaired, as was his garden: home to mesquite trees and desert willows and succulent plants that had seen better years, but were still alive and mostly free of blight.†   (source)
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  • Grains and grasses had to be prepared for some, vegetables and raw fish for others, fruit and sour milk for the three Mora sisters, and succulent meat dishes, desserts, and other poisons for Jaime and Nicolas, who had insatiable appetites and still had not developed their own favorite dishes.†   (source)
  • The buzzards fought for it with the rats and the dogs in a perpetual scramble among the deer and succulent capons from Sotavento hanging from the eaves of the market stalls, and the spring vegetables from Arjona displayed on straw mats spread over the ground.†   (source)
  • There were succulent rolls visible between sari and blouse.†   (source)
  • What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight.†   (source)
  • Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.†   (source)
  • Succulent grapes.†   (source)
  • Smees are a proud race, lovingly nourished by Nature's succulent goodness until mighty Providence should see fit to— Meaning, they grow as a grub in the dirt until a big rain washes 'em away," interrupted Cooper.†   (source)
  • I smacked my lips like a cartoon character and bit into the succulent burger.†   (source)
  • He unwrapped the paper to reveal two huge, succulent steaks.†   (source)
  • They dined on succulent grilled lobster, drenched in real, creamy, rich butter.†   (source)
  • He remembered something, a quite wonderful and appropriate line, out of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female, implying in a complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.†   (source)
  • My master's hands and mine have always Dipped together and, home or sacred feast, The bowl was beaten bronze, the meats So succulent our teeth accused us of neglect.†   (source)
  • I have not seen you for a long time, nor had any of your succulent fruit.†   (source)
  • All over America, dumbheads, on lesser college campuses, campuses that do not specialize in producing whole men, boys exactly your age are turning over in their sleep and touching the huge, succulent boobs of their girl friends and moaning that they have to get up for their first class at two o'clock in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • Although I had already been disabused of the truth of a good many scientifically established beliefs about wolves by my own recent experiences, I could hardly believe that the all-powerful and intelligent wolf would limit his predation on the caribou herds to culling the sick and the infirm when he could, presumably, take his choice of the fattest and most succulent individuals.†   (source)
  • Sophie kept her eyes shut as the flow of his weird Nazi grammar, with its outlandishly overheated images of clumps of succulent Teutonic word-bloat, moved its way up through the tributaries of her mind, nearly drowning her reason.†   (source)
  • It skinned easily; the flesh was succulent and tender; and there was enough for all.†   (source)
  • Such was now the light in the staff room, the light of an early autumn sunset, as succulent, glassy, juicy as a certain variety of Russian apple.†   (source)
  • That night he enjoyed a hot Turkish bath, a succulent filet carpeted with delicate mushrooms, imported dry sherry, and strawberries in wine.†   (source)
  • It was choked with a succulent weed, whose furred brown roots waved like thin tentacles underwater.†   (source)
  • Several cooks scurried around carrying large, succulent roast turkeys cooked to a golden brown.†   (source)
  • She was succulent, sweet, docile and dumb, and she drove everyone crazy but General Dreedle.†   (source)
  • You were succulent and pink with one long fin and no scales.†   (source)
  • I've heard that rumor, passed on to me in soundless words, the lips hardly moving, as we stood in line outside, waiting for the store to open, lured by the picture of succulent white fillets in the window.†   (source)
  • Succulent Morphology.†   (source)
  • Their skin was a succulent golden pink.†   (source)
  • It was a splendid evening, which Captain Diego Samaritano seasoned with succulent tales of his forty years on the river, but Fermina Daza had to make an enormous effort to appear amused.†   (source)
  • When Max finally polished off a heaping mound of pasta shells swimming in Bellagrog's succulent red sauce, the ravenous hunger faded.†   (source)
  • What we eat is vaguely Thai: chicken, spicy and succulent, a salad of exotic foliage, red leaves, tiny splinters of purple.†   (source)
  • In winter, I brought the jasmine indoors while the empty wire cages outside stood as memorials to the succulent, blood-red tomatoes the earth had given up.†   (source)
  • Peter and Mary wanted to linger over the meal, would have liked to pick every succulent scrap off the bustard's bones; but the bush boy was impatient to be off.†   (source)
  • I recalled once more (how many times had I summoned their sound?) the pellucid indecencies Leslie had uttered, and as I did so—the viewfinder of my mind reshaping each crevice of her moist and succulent lips, the orthodontically fashioned perfection of the sparkling incisors, even a cunning fleck of foam at the edge of the orifice—it seemed the dizziest pipe dream that this very evening, sometime before the sun should fulfill its oriental circuit and rise again on Sheepshead Bay, that mouth would be—no, I could not let myself think about that slippery-sweet mouth and its impending employments.†   (source)
  • And he thought lusciously of mysterious and succulent food.†   (source)
  • The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and salads, the sharp and the sweet, each in its order; their potatoes, thin as coins but not so hard; their sprouts, foliated as rosebuds but more succulent.†   (source)
  • He would always hesitate to reach the succulent marrow when he was eating a piece of sugarcane, for, as he explained—'I introduce myself gradually into the region of delights.'†   (source)
  • The party sachems met here in secret pow-wow in a private dining room and, over succulent oysters, they decided who'd be elected and who mowed down.†   (source)
  • A bold, blunt-tipped nose, positive chin, a very large mouth,—the lips thick and succulent but never loose, never relaxed, always stiffened by effort or working with excitement.†   (source)
  • I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation.†   (source)
  • At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guests were the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecue sauce and Brunswick stew floated.†   (source)
  • Gant brought back the roaring fires, the groaning succulent table, the lavish and explosive ritual of the daily life.†   (source)
  • Thus, while he piled high with succulent meat the boy's platter, he would say sentimentally: "I tell you what: there are not many boys who have what you have.†   (source)
  • I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows, and for a moment I was free.†   (source)
  • The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent that I could not enter them without a sort of greedy enjoyment, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter holidays, when I could taste it more fully, because I had just arrived then at Combray: before I went in to wish my aunt good day I would be kept waiting a little time in the outer room, where the sun, a wintry su†   (source)
  • I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that was black and succulent under foot.†   (source)
  • The order was given, the joint rolled up, and the carver, under Mr. Wilcox's direction, cut the meat where it was succulent, and piled their plates high.†   (source)
  • Those that would stand still of their own will were milked in the middle of the yard, where many of such better behaved ones stood waiting now—all prime milchers, such as were seldom seen out of this valley, and not always within it; nourished by the succulent feed which the water-meads supplied at this prime season of the year.†   (source)
  • They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream, was amply partaken of and appreciated.†   (source)
  • Who has not frequently reflected on all the momentous things that we get out of that modest animal, the ornament of poultry-yards, that provides us at once with a soft pillow for our bed, with succulent flesh for our tables, and eggs?†   (source)
  • Among the trees they were continually cutting with their scythes the so-called "birch mushrooms," swollen fat in the succulent grass.†   (source)
  • Grilling over the coals, those cutlets from the "bari-outang" soon gave off a succulent aroma that perfumed the air.†   (source)
  • This feast is not very succulent; but never mind, I will put up with it for the sake of remaining with you.†   (source)
  • When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club—its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy—aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.†   (source)
  • Here luxuriant trees are always in their prime,
    pomegranates and pears, and apples glowing red,
    succulent figs and olives swelling sleek and dark.†   (source)
  • It was warm and companionable in the caravan where we ate; men and women and children all ate casually from bowls, sitting wherever they could find space, dipping the succulent stew up with chunks of bread.†   (source)
  • Laughing rowdily, men prepared their noonday meal,
    succulent, rich—they'd butchered quite a herd.†   (source)
  • And over his head
    leafy trees dangled their fruit from high aloft,
    pomegranates and pears, and apples glowing red,
    succulent figs and olives swelling sleek and dark,
    but as soon as the old man would strain to clutch them fast
    a gust would toss them up to the lowering dark clouds.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, dudes see it and think, "That is one less guy I have to compete with for the most succulent boobs in the Boob Competition that is high school."†   (source)
  • For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.†   (source)
  • It is full of what Bret Harte called the "sabre-cuts of Saxon"; it meets Montaigne's ideal of "a succulent and nervous speech, short and compact, not as much delicated and combed out as vehement and brusque, rather arbitrary than monotonous, not pedantic but soldierly, as Suetonius called Caesar's Latin."†   (source)
  • Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.†   (source)
  • On the contrary that stab in the back touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.†   (source)
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