(n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The net or apparent absorption of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus expressed per milligram of intake increased significantly in the oat bran period due to the added content of these nutrients in the oat bran muffins.
(2) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(3) A 40-d control period preceded a 32-d experimental period in which subjects consumed four oat bran muffins daily as part of a constant metabolic diet.
(4) In the last 24 hours alone I have bought muffins, a second-class single to Colchester, two quality newspapers, a dish of luxury nuts and a garage punk CD called Back to the Grave 9 .
(5) Perks for staff on the phones include free packed lunches and chocolate muffins.
(6) Twenty minutes, a poppy seed muffin and a burnt tongue later, I was leaving the place.
(7) Gently manoeuvre these into greased mini muffin tins and top with 1 tsp filling.
(8) Bakery owner Bea Vo, of Bea's of Bloomsbury, who runs four cafes across London, was shocked to discover that "her" invention, the duffin, a cross between a doughnut and a muffin (what was wrong with "muffnut"?
(9) In a study to examine the effects of dietary oat bran on serum lipids, subjects who ate two oat bran muffins a day for 28 days showed a 5.3% reduction in serum total cholesterol and an 8.7% reduction in low-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, while no changes were noted in subjects consuming wheat or mixed wheat and oat bran muffins.
(10) A full-term male infant was born with skin findings suggesting a blueberry muffin appearance.
(11) Spoon the mixture into 6 mini silicone loaf pans or 12 muffin cases, and bake for 30-40 minutes, checking after 25.
(12) After an eight-week diet period subjects were randomised to receive two muffins per day containing either 60 g of oatbran or the equivalent amount of fibre from wheatbran in a double blind crossover study.
(13) This April, there were maybe 100 attendees wedged into wooden theatre seats in a downtown auditorium, holding weak coffee and spongy muffins.
(14) Examples ranged from the Elaine Benes-referencing “what about a muffin place that just sold the top” (from @Seinfeld2000) to the banal juxtaposition of “Iowa is home to the world’s largest truck stop” (by @hannahchin) .
(15) People always remind me - as if I need reminding about custard gate and the elbowed muffin and things like that.
(16) I learned odd things about him: he doesn’t know the plot of Macbeth ; he hasn’t seen Blade Runner and he’s never heard of the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane.
(17) Meanwhile, Hampton Creek Foods , founded by 32-year-old entrepreneur Josh Tetrick, is working on a plant-based replacement for egg yolks to go in muffins, mayonnaise and other sauces.
(18) At the time of writing, the Daily Telegraph had published 73 articles about the programme since 1 August; supermarket aisles groan with muffin tins and piping bags and cake stands come Bake Off season.
(19) The advice is that two to three portions of red meat a week is probably OK and will give you some important nutrients.” Obesity is fuelled mostly by the foods eaten between meals, such as muffins, crisps, cakes and biscuits – all high in fat and made palatable by sugar, said the scientists.
(20) Line the holes in the muffin tray with the 20cm rounds, pressing them gently over the base and up the sides without stretching the dough.
Ruffin
Definition:
(a.) Disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday this week a second witness came forward and supported key aspects of Ruffin’s version of events, including that police had ignored Dhu’s pleas for help over several days.
(2) Ruffin gave evidence via video link from Roebourne prison, where Dhu would have been sent had her warrant required longer in custody.
(3) Ruffin Smith said so far no refugees have arrived: “We’ve made ourselves available.
(4) Ruffin said he heard her crying through the wall; O’Brien said the evidence of police was that her pain had spread from being just at the site of her broken ribs to all over her body.
(5) [Dhu] had stabbed me in the leg with a pair of scissors, over an argument, I can’t remember what it was over,” Ruffin said.
(6) Dion Ruffin, Dhu’s partner who was arrested alongside her and placed in an adjacent cell, earlier said police dismissed Dhu’s cries of distress as her “acting like a two-year-old” or somehow connected to her intravenous drug use.
(7) François Ruffin, the journalist and film-maker behind an award-winning blockbuster documentary on textile workers , tweeted that he had won a seat for France Unbowed in the northern area of the Sommes, confounding the predictions in favour of his opponent from Macron’s party.
(8) Ruffin has a record for domestic violence offences against former partners and admitted, under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Ilona O’Brien, that Dhu got the two broken ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton three-and-a-half months before her death.
(9) Roe told the inquest she did not like Ruffin and blamed him for changing her daughter in the year or so before her death from a “happy, bubbly child” into someone more withdrawn.
(10) Ms Dhu’s partner at the time was Dion Ruffin, a 41-year-old man arrested at the same time as her but for different offences.
(11) She was arrested alongside Deon Ruffin, her allegedly abusive, much older partner.
(12) The Western Australian police force; Western Australian country health service; two nurses who attended Dhu at the South Hedland health campus; Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, and grandmother Carole Roe; Dhu’s father, Robert Dhu; and her ex-partner Dion James Ruffin were all individually represented.
(13) Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, was allegedly abused by her partner, Dion Ruffin, who told the inquest in November that her rib broke in a “tussle” , which he claimed Dhu started.
(14) He kept going on about how she was carrying on like a two-year-old child and she was being childish, and that this was a mental health issue.” Ruffin said he repeatedly called police on the cell intercom and pleaded with them to take Dhu to hospital because he believed that she had blood poisoning from a blister he had popped.
(15) Robert Dhu told the court that Dhu had told him Ruffin had broken her ribs when he “flogged her” .
(16) Since mid-2013 she had been in a relationship with Deon Ruffin, an Aboriginal man 18-years her senior, who, according to her family, was controlling and abusive.
(17) Ms Dhu 'treated like a dog' by police before death in custody, inquest told Read more Ruffin, who gave evidence via video link from Greenough prison on Tuesday, where he is serving time for offences including assault and breaching a violence restraining order, said that Dhu had broken her ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton but denied being violent, saying “we had a few wrestles”.
(18) Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, who was detained in the next cell, told The Australian he heard her crying for help on that day, but police initially refused to take her to the hospital.
(19) The infection had entered Dhu’s bloodstream through her skin and taken seed around her broken ribs, said White, adding, “The osteomyelitis is in the ribs because it was broken or injured, and that was where the source of the infection comes from.” Dhu’s family told the coroner on Monday that Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, was abusive and had broken her ribs a few months before.
(20) Ruffin was arrested after police received a tipoff that he had breached his bail conditions and Dhu was picked up for $3,622 in unpaid court fines.