Biscuits made partly with whole-wheat flour have a delightfully nutty quality.

Rocked by these competing flavors, the oysters took on a faintly nutty quality.

Sir Thomas praises the "nutty" quality of Mr. Maltman's voice, comparing him to the hale Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson, a legendary concert singer.

It is light-coloured and delicate in flavour and scent, with a nutty quality.

But toast the rough-cut grain in olive oil and then allow it to absorb chicken stock a little at a time, and the nutty quality of the wheat blooms.

The hazelnut liqueur, used with restraint, adds a faintly sweet nutty quality to the sauce that complements the lobster beautifully.

Note: If you substitute one or two tablespoons of walnut oil for some of the peanut oil in this salad, it will accentuate the nutty quality of the rice.

Used in a clam soup, fregola assumes a nutty quality, in both texture and taste.

There is a distinctly nutty quality in the President talking about abstinence.

As time passes, the wine develops a "rancio" character, a heady, nutty quality much prized in older sherries.