: a flat cake made of thin batter and cooked (as on a griddle) on both sides
Examples of pancake in a Sentence
Noun
We had blueberry pancakes and sausage for breakfast.
She wore sequins, false eyelashes, and pancake onstage.
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Erin Clements, People.com, 30 July 2025
Another type of vanilla powder, made from vanilla extractives, starches, and additives like maltodextrin to prevent clumping, is suitable for dry mixes like homemade pancake mix or for adding to a coating for doughnuts, or mixing with powdered sugar to sprinkle over a Bundt cake.
—Sarah Jampel, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 July 2025
Matt Barrows, New York Times, 29 July 2025
Much of the state, thanks to retreating glaciers filling in our valleys and pancaking the landscape, is relatively flat, but the gently rolling Hoosier Hill stands one-and-a-half times as high as the Salesforce Tower in downtown Indy.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The pancake chain has cooked up two new limited-edition stacks inspired by the colorful bars that began flooding TikTok in 2024.
—Erin Clements, People.com, 30 July 2025
Another type of vanilla powder, made from vanilla extractives, starches, and additives like maltodextrin to prevent clumping, is suitable for dry mixes like homemade pancake mix or for adding to a coating for doughnuts, or mixing with powdered sugar to sprinkle over a Bundt cake.
—Sarah Jampel, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 July 2025
Verb
There was, however, a rather large asterisk to Colby’s outing: He was blown off his feet and pancaked by an Evan Anderson bull rush on one of his reps.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 29 July 2025
Much of the state, thanks to retreating glaciers filling in our valleys and pancaking the landscape, is relatively flat, but the gently rolling Hoosier Hill stands one-and-a-half times as high as the Salesforce Tower in downtown Indy.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Pancake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pancake. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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