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. The air smelled sweet and clean.
2. Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
3. Men love beautiful faces, women love sweet words.
4. Although again sweet candy, also has a bitter day.
5. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SWEET
sweet
 a.  having a natural fragrance
 n.  the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
2  In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure.
3  Remember once again the passage of memories, has no sweet.
4  The air smelled sweet and clean.
5  Although again sweet candy, also has a bitter day.
6  Men love beautiful faces, women love sweet words.
7  Sit not sad because that time a fitful aspect weareth; Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it bearth.
8  Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
9  The fowler's pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.
10  People usually eat sweet dumplings on the Lantern Festival.
11  He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is.
12  That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
13  I send my miss to the scattering stars and wish you a sweet dream under the light shedding through your window.
14  Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
15  Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end.