HONEY in a Sentence

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For HONEY, below is one of 49 sentences:
Melly, honey, I knew you were doing it just to take up for me and, really, I was glad to see somebody take Dolly down a peg.

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 Meanings and Examples of HONEY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
honey
 n.  a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  "Why, honey, of course there's going to be a war," said Stuart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Melly, honey, I knew you were doing it just to take up for me and, really, I was glad to see somebody take Dolly down a peg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Of course, he did, honey, some of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Melly," she said and her voice softened, "honey, this breaks my heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  "Well, all right, honey, a little later," said the doctor, more kindly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
6  Sure, I know, but it's your fight, honey.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  The Delawares have been like bears after the honey pots, prowling around my village.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
8  "Be keerful, honey, you 'll be a-ketchin' flies," he said.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Some one was playing Schubert's Expectation with much feeling, though with an untrained hand, and the melody flowed with honey sweetness through the air.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Afterwards she brought a freshly roasted chicken, ham, preserves made with honey, and preserves made with sugar.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
11  Just as "Uncle's" pickled mushrooms, honey, and cherry brandy had seemed to her the best in the world, so also that song, at that moment, seemed to her the acme of musical delight.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
12  From the alighting board, instead of the former spirituous fragrant smell of honey and venom, and the warm whiffs of crowded life, comes an odor of emptiness and decay mingling with the smell of honey.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
13  In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
14  Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
15  Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
2  Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
3  He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it.
4  You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
5  No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
6  Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
7  A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
8  Wherever possible I use honey instead of sugar.
9  He finds that his diet of wheat germ and organic honey isn't nutritious at all.
10  Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
11  So, if you heat honey, the viscosity is less than that of cold honey.
12  An alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water.
13  Max has decided that honey baked ham is better than Subway sandwich.
14  Don't always speak honeyed words.
15  He didn't bumble for the honeyed words of the landlord.