How to Use white flour in a Sentence

white flour

noun
  • Opt for whole grains rather than refined grains, such as white flour.
    — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 4 May 2026
  • Most dessert breads contain refined white flour and sweeteners.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Corn tortillas are a gluten-free, whole-grain alternative to white flour tortillas.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
  • However, white flour was already running out.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Replace bread and pasta made with refined white flour with whole-grain alternatives.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • However, some types of multigrain bread may also contain refined white flour.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But soon the white flour completely ran out, leaving us fighting the terrible taste of pure barley and corn flour.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Consider using high-fiber baking ingredients, such as whole-grain flour, chia seeds, and ground flaxseed, rather than white flour.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 6 June 2026
  • Bread flour, whole wheat flour, all‑purpose white flour, masa, purple cornmeal, medium‑ground yellow cornmeal, plain fine cornmeal, semolina flour, barley flour, and sorghum flour.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The primary reason gravy raises blood sugar is due to the use of white flour or cornstarch, which serves as a thickener in most traditional gravy recipes.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Refined grains, such as white flour, have had the bran (the outer layer of the grain kernel) and the germ (the part of the kernel that can grow into a new plant) removed during processing.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 14 July 2026
  • Unlike all-purpose white flour, which has had its oil largely removed during processing, whole grain flours and whole grains retain their natural fats from the nutrient-rich wheat germ.
    — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 1 July 2026
  • In contrast, traditional flour tortillas are typically made with white flour, water, a source of fat like vegetable shortening, lard, or oil, salt, and leavening agents like baking powder.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Salted and preserved fish and meats, including bacon, sausage, liver pudding and offal, were staples of working-class people's diets, while the upper classes indulged in such luxuries as white flour and sugar.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • Additionally, sprouted whole-grain bread is significantly higher in blood-pressure-regulating minerals such as magnesium than bread made with refined white flour.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Additionally, sprouted whole grain bread is significantly higher in blood pressure-regulating minerals, such as magnesium, than bread made with refined white flour.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 4 May 2026
  • Native communities—who had been eating fresh, seasonal foods long before farmers’ markets were a thing—were now forced to stand in line for military rations, subsisting on commodity foods like white flour, sugar, and blocks of orange cheese.
    — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

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