NECTAR in a Sentence

nectar

 n.  sweet liquid secreted by flowers of various plants; delicious or invigorating drink

1  Mr. Laurence and Aunt March shrugged and smiled at one another when water, lemonade, and coffee were found to be to only sorts of nectar which the three Hebes carried round.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

2  Sweets to the sweet, mannling, and Mr. Bhaer offered Jo some, with a look that made her wonder if chocolate was not the nectar drunk by the gods.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

3  Calypso set meat and drink before him of the food that mortals eat; but her maids brought ambrosia and nectar for herself, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.

The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V

4  That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

5  It was not, after all, opportunity but imagination that he lacked: he had a mental palate which would never learn to distinguish between railway tea and nectar.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2

1  Bees have half a dozen aerial dances to indicate where to find nectar.

2  Life is merely a drop of nectar on the lotus leaf.

3  We feasted that evening as on nectar and ambrosia; and not the least delight of the entertainment was the smile of gratification with which our hostess regarded us, as we satisfied our famished appetites on the delicate fare she liberally supplied.

4  Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar; but scientists have now learned that flowers are buzzing right back - with electricity.