DESSERT in a Sentence

Learn DESSERT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

25 example sentences for DESSERT, such as:

1. For dessert there's a fruit pie of some sort.
2. They had long since passed to dessert and cigars.
3. I've just got to prepare the dessert and that should do it.
4. This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
5. I have ten thousand knives and forks, and the same quantity of dessert spoons.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of DESSERT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dessert
 n.  the sweet course eaten at the end of a meal
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Then Ali brought on the dessert, or rather took the baskets from the hands of the statues and placed them on the table.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
2  During dessert, the servant inquired at what time they wished for the carriage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
3  I shall come back to dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee, and cigars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
4  They had long since passed to dessert and cigars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  When the dessert and the wine were arranged, and Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor were left by themselves, they remained long together in a similarity of thoughtfulness and silence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
6  These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
7  These, however, were small drawbacks, and easily forgotten when the cloth was cleared, and the dessert put on the table; at which period of the entertainment the handy young man was discovered to be speechless.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
8  And still every morning he went into the city by tram and every evening walked home from the city after having dined moderately in George's Street and read the evening paper for dessert.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
9  I have ten thousand knives and forks, and the same quantity of dessert spoons.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
10  On the piano is a dessert dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly chocolates.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
11  Mrs. Sands called it a good year if she could make six pots of apricot jam from them--the fruit was never sweet enough for dessert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
12  Candish, with his curved brush had swept the crumbs; had spared the petals and finally left the family to dessert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
13  In the drawing-room the company found dessert awaiting them in the shape of pears, plums, and apples; but since neither host nor guest could tackle these particular dainties the hostess removed them to another room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
14  "Here is more dessert," she said.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
15  He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three sous, and a three-sou dessert.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
Example Sentence:
1  When Des cooks dinner he always goes the whole nine yards, with three courses and a choice of dessert.
2  I've just got to prepare the dessert and that should do it.
3  This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
4  For dessert there's a fruit pie of some sort.
5  Allrecipes has more than 11370 trusted dessert recipes complete with ratings, reviews and serving tips.
6  Determined to lose weight for the summer, Ida decided to forgo dessert until she could fit into a size eight again.