raisin

Definitions

Examples

• Add ½ to ¾ cup of raisins and 1 teaspoon each of salt, cinnamon and cloves.

• You can also try raisin breads or seeded breads — one blogger even succeeded with pumpkin bread — just avoid brownie mixes and more liquidy things.

• Unlock the mixer bowl and, using a spatula, gently fold in the pecans and raisins.

• This is essentially making wine from raisins — you concentrate the grapes’ sugar and acidity, while losing 75 percent of the juice.

• At best, these claims blow small bits of evidence way out of proportion—sure, raisins contain nutrients that can contribute to healthy blood pressure, but eating them won’t magically cure hypertension.

• Amiri Baraka echoed this sentiment 17 years after Raisin premiered—post-Birmingham, post-Medgar, post-Malcolm.

• Someone needed to write the “protest plays,” as Hansberry described Raisin.

• When Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, America was shimmering with the stirrings of social agitation.

• Raisin has racked up five Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Play, and Best Direction of a Play.

• After the "raisin gliders," soup and a good stiff hoosh, Webb finished his observations while I recorded for him.

• They all wore white cotton caps, men an' women; an' they made the caps themselves out of cotton of their own raisin'.

• During that period he spent some time at Fresno, California, endeavoring to start a raisin ranch.

• The second phase began likewise with a disaster—the needless loss of a thousand men on the Raisin River, near Detroit.

• Why, at MacKenzie's raisin' last year he jist went round foamin' like an old boar and nobody dast say a word to him.