Examples of “jelly” in a Sentence

noun A soft, semi-solid food made by setting fruit juice or another liquid with gelatin or pectin, often spread on bread or eaten as a dessert.

• She spread strawberry jelly on her toast.
• The kids wolfed down bowls of red jelly at the party.
• We had raspberry jelly and ice cream for dessert after the picnic.

verb To set or thicken into a jelly-like consistency.

• Leave the sauce to cool and jelly in the fridge overnight.
• The juice will jelly once the pectin has been boiled in and left to cool.
• Wait for the mixture to jelly before you turn the mold out onto a plate.