RELISH in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for RELISH, such as:

1. Butter to butter is no relish.
2. I have no relish for pop music.
3. I relish the challenge of rebuilding the club.
4. He thought that he did not relish the landscape.
5. I don't relish the thought of you walking home alone.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
relish
 v.  take keen or zestful pleasure in; enjoy the flavor of; give spice or flavor to
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  The family ate it with relish but a sense of guilt, knowing very well Pork had stolen it, as he had stolen the peas and corn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  She picked up from him the gift of stinging words and sardonic phrases and learned to relish using them for the power they gave her over other people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  He told it with relish for he was delighted that someone had the courage to face down his redoubtable daughter-in-law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Now she understood why when two ex- Confederates met, they talked of the war with so much relish, with pride, with nostalgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
5  While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
6  Deep down in each of them there was a kind of hearty joviality, a relish of life, not over-delicate, but very invigorating.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
7  He was childishly gratified to discover her appetite, and to see the relish with which she ate the food which he had procured for her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
8  To begin with, he would have to go to the yards and work, and he mightn't relish that; but he would have what he earned, as well as the rest that came to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
9  by the American "a relish," substituting the thing for its.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
10  Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had before so strongly urged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
11  As to rush, I little relish such a measure; for a scalp or two must be thrown away in the attempt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of finding none which I should relish less than the one which I was leaving.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  He thought that he did not relish the landscape.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
15  But it was very pleasant to see the pride with which he hoisted it up and made it fast; smiling as he did so, with a relish and not merely mechanically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
Example Sentence:
1  I don't relish the thought of you walking home alone.
2  I relish the challenge of doing jobs that others turn down.
3  I relish the challenge of rebuilding the club.
4  I have no relish for pop music.
5  Butter to butter is no relish.
6  He did not particularly relish the prospect of a meeting with his boss.
7  She won't relish having to do the household chores every day.
8  Watching they enthusiastically chow down, I thought, "Now there are men who relish a good dinner!"
9  Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
10  I believe the Chinese food can be made more relishing.