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How to pronounce “molasses”
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Pronunciation guide for molasses
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of molasses with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it
It's like swimming through molasses.
- Definition summary
- A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce molasses
Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it

It's like swimming through molasses.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “molasses”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
- (US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
- (figuratively) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
- (figuratively) Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
- (Scotland, obsolete) plural of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
- (Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete) third-person singular simple present indicative of molass
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