do'nut

Example Sentences

• "A delicious odor was wafted upward from the galley, and both John and Cortland felt almost inclined to ask the meaning of it, when a broad, round, shining face appeared at the open window of the pilot-house, and a jolly voice said, in very broken English,—“Miss Wi’l’t, haf a do’nut?” and then a tempting plate of the delicious hot crisp rings was handed through the opening. […] “O Joe! there’s nothing better in all the wide world than your doughnuts, hot.[…]”"
• "For a moment this confession failed to bring its reward, and something was said about punishing wilful waste by withholding the coveted doughnuts. This was a situation that called for reflection—and got it. After a few minutes of apparently serious thought, Chang sidled up to his mamma with this poser: “Say, mamma, if I hadn’t told you about putting it in the waste barrel, you’d never have knowed, and then I’d have had a do’nut.”"
• "To each visitor we will serve one cup of coffee and a do’nut or roll"
• "The doughnut is a New York doughnut, a bagel, the sort with a hole in the middle, instead of jam. Maybe one should spell it American-style as ‘do’nut’! For the purposes of getting organized you need to turn the do’nut inside-out in your mind, so that the hole is filled in and the empty space is on the outside – if you can conceive of that. […] The things which you must do or you have failed, represent the solid core of the inside-out do’nut, the yolk of the egg."
• "Gobos which are required in precise focus are often helped by the addition of a ‘do’nut’, a metal hand-made mask fitted into the colour frame with a circle cut out to permit the light to pass."
• "Come on. You need a good night’s sleep, that’s all. You’ll see it differently when you’ve had a do’nut and some coffee."