Sentence examples for molasses from high-quality English sources.

• A spirit distilled from molasses or sugar cane juice.

• (You can find the molasses at Middle Eastern groceries.)

• Some countries import molasses for use in rum production.

• In the spring of 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and revised its trade laws, replacing a threepence duty on foreign molasses with a one-penny duty on all molasses—about what a bribe had cost.

• The Great Molasses Flood left 21 people dead and 150 injured.

• Molasses syrup is separated from sugar crystals by means of centrifuging.

• Cane molasses is also used for making alcoholic drinks, particularly rum.

• The old Molasses Act, having yielded but little income, was modified in 1764.

Use molasses in a sentence.

• A nonstick pot prevents the molasses from burning on the sides and means less stirring.

• It is far less sweet than syrup or honey and the darker the molasses, the less sugar it contains.

• By-products include molasses, syrups, industrial alcohol from molasses, and rum.

• Think of these ginger-molasses cookies as a cross between a gingerbread man and a chewy molasses cookie.

• Rum distilling was one of the leading industries in New England, and the act had the effect of raising the price of molasses there.

• Before 1948 molasses was fermented to make industrial ethyl alcohol, which is now made principally from ethylene, thus decreasing the demand for molasses.

• The A molasses is concentrated to yield a B strike, and the low-grade B molasses is concentrated to yield C sugar and final molasses, or blackstrap.

• And, for a more subtly flavored frosting, substitute an equal amount of dark maple syrup for the molasses, or skip the molasses entirely for pure cream-cheese flavor.

molasses sentence examples

• Molasses Act, (1733), in American colonial history, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.

• Bademjan kebab is traditionally pan-fried eggplant stuffed with bieh, a herb-and-nut sauce that, in Northern Iran, uses sour fruit molasses along with the typical sweet and sour pomegranate molasses.

• Rum figured in the slave trade of the American colonies: slaves were brought from Africa and traded to the West Indies for molasses; the molasses was made into rum in New England; and the rum was then traded to Africa for more slaves.

• Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.