SWEET in a Sentence

Learn SWEET 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.

269 example sentences for SWEET, such as:

1. Yeah, I have a sweet tooth.
2. A soft fire makes sweet malt.
3. The sweet food lay heavy on my stomach.
4. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
5. To a devoted couple even water tastes sweet.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWEET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sweet
 a.  having a taste similar to that of sugar
 a.  pleasant and attractive
 n.  the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
 n.  a small piece of sweet food, made of sugar
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Her tone was so sweet that he took the pipe from his mouth and drew his chair up to the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Pa is a sweet, selfish, irresponsible darling, Scarlett thought, with a surge of affection for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Scarlett turned smiling green eyes upon her younger sister, wondering how anyone could be so sweet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  And he's never acted very sweet on her, for all that they're engaged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  She did not even feel his pinch, for she could hear clearly the sweet voice that was Melanie's chief charm: "I fear I cannot agree with you about Mr. Thackeray's works."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Scarlett felt it was just Melanie's way of parading her conquest and getting credit for being sweet at the same time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
16  Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
17  Yeah, I have a sweet tooth.
18  Take a piece of candy everyday and tell yourself :the day is sweet again.
19  Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
20  By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
21  To a devoted couple even water tastes sweet.
22  I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle just happened to cash lies.
23  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
24  I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle.
25  A soft fire makes sweet malt.
26  The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweet.
27  The sweet food lay heavy on my stomach.
28  The rain cleared the air, and the grass smelt fresh and sweet.
29  She hates playing the sweet, passive women that audiences identify her with.
30  Symptoms of PMS include breast tenderness and a craving for sweet food.