treacle BrE
black treacle BrE
molasses AmE

A hundred steps, maybe more, difficult as running in treacle.

They were coming from the old treacle factory, which had been shut down.

It's not even a new engine, but it runs like treacle.

We had treacle pudding, see, two days in a row!

It is a subject that can - and does - melt into treacle.

Once upon a time, there were three sisters, and they lived in the bottom of a treacle well!

Add the black treacle, followed by the flour, again beating well.

They had to do so without using their hands, resulting in treacle covered faces.

A good sign: The trailer has more comedy than treacle.

But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere.

He lay for a moment, stunned, his face in a pool of black treacle.

What's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day?

Arguing with him was like trying to wade through treacle - impossible!

The blood was dripping from his elbow, like thick black treacle.

Brimstone and treacle they used to use in my grandmother's day.

It was like wading through treacle just to order a meal.

As my own children came along, they loved to go to Granny's for treacle pudding!

The treacle rose to the surface many years later.

The thick black nature of treacle makes the deception plausible.

He spread his hands out behind him to the fire, rubbing them together like a fly that has been in treacle.

Her melodies can suggest pop radio treacle from 20 years ago.

He moved as though through treacle, fighting against the entropy slope.

Daniel dragged himself to the bank, like an insect moving through treacle.

I'll deliver them myself if you can wait that long," said Treacle.

The British took to this novel concoction like young boys to treacle.

Others have a lot of molasses and chocolate in them.

Summer would drop her heavy hand soon enough, and turn the air to molasses.

His voice was warm as molasses, too soft for the rest of him.

Henry had heard it all before, except the part about the molasses.

Despite its name, it is made from molasses, not honey.

His slow as molasses voice was just a bit rushed.

They were very long minutes, with the second hand of the watch moving as though crawling through molasses.

After playing it, the original felt like being stuck in molasses.

Babe had his own molasses business that closed in the year 2008.

It will turn the system into molasses, and there's no way you'll follow everything that happens.

"I remember my father in Massachusetts pouring molasses on them."

If anyone attempts to touch one it will feel like their hand is going through molasses.

"Along with molasses, it was the only sugar that we had."

The landscape around them now could indeed have involved frozen molasses.

Molasses spills on the floor, and his feet get stuck.

Bread can be brown because of molasses or other added ingredients.

Time passed like chilled molasses as he waited for her return.

He came in with a variety of ailments, moving like molasses.

At this point the liquid had been transformed into molasses.

The oil, like black molasses, was up to their chins.

Slowly mix in the boiling water and then the molasses.

Men turned to watch the Riders, and they moved as if suspended in molasses.

It looked much like molasses being poured onto a plate.

The molasses is then drained off and taken to the still house to be made into rum.

It also produces molasses which is then turned into ethanol.