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Bittersweet
"Bittersweet" in a Sentence (22 examples)
If I could, I would love to experience once again a bittersweet love like in middle school.
"Hey, what happened in the final episode of 'Tom and Mary'?" "They broke up, in the end. It was really bittersweet." "Oh my! And after being so deeply in love!"
This chocolate has a bittersweet taste.
This chocolate tastes bittersweet.
One of the bittersweet experiences in language learning is that, eventually, you find out that the lyrics of some of the songs you used to love so much are plain silly or offensive.
A memory can be bittersweet.
She smiled a bittersweet smile.
"Why don't they ever play 'Cheers Then' by Bananarama on the radio at Christmas?" "Because it's not a Christmas song?" "It is! It's got sleigh bells, bittersweet nostalgia, smiling through the break-up tears in the snow, the lot!"
Mary describes her first love as "a bittersweet memory".
William's visit to his childhood home was filled with nostalgia and bittersweet memories.
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The dark green mooncake is loaded with matcha-infused salted egg yolk custard, which gives a bittersweet taste.
The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.
[…] sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet […]
Her eyes still shone upon the ground, and still she prolonged the bittersweet delight at seeing this humiliation of both soul and body by asking the one question whose reply would complete her sad success.
He sat beside the busy street, There, where he last had seen her face: And thronging memories, bitter-sweet, Seemed yet to haunt the ancient place:
While the final festivities were bittersweet, David and Lisa insisted on a party rather than a funeral.
The public has complicated feelings about our decision to end this trial before it ever began, and that’s OK. It’s bittersweet for us, too.
Bitter ſweete bringeth foorth wooddie ſtalks as doth the Vine, parted into many ſlender creeping braunches, by which it climeth and taketh holde of hedges and ſhrubbes next vnto it. […] Bitter ſweet doth grow in moiſt places about ditches, riuers, and hedges, almoſt euery where.
I had once before visited these three villages, Skedans, Tanoo and Cumshewa. The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them.
Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums.
"They had a good crop of bitter-sweets, they couldn’t grind them all"—nodding towards an orchard where some heaps of apples had been left lying ever since the ingathering.
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