“Bananas are a high-carb food, high in starch and natural sugar.”

“You'll need a good iron, a hard surface to iron on, and some spray starch.”

“The ruffled dimity curtains were limp as if, like the old hands that had laundered them, they too were drained of the starch of youth.”

“The starchiness which characterized the East Coast elite in the 1950s has gone, he says.”

“I feel happy until they start to remake the bed with shiny new sheets that glisten in bleached starchiness.”

“Grant's starchiness, a certain reserve in her lean frame, also works well for Sarah as they sing about their ideal partners.”