Oversugar

"Oversugar" in a Sentence (3 examples)

We oversugar, oversalt. We stimulate our tongues with spices and artificial sweeteners, our noses with artificial flavors, our eyes with artificial brilliant dyes. These are not things that nature has made, necessarily, although she provided the raw materials. They are superstimulants that humans have made or found.

Nabby said three other things to Alice in the course of that day: she’d oversugared the pudding; she’d put out the wrong plates; she’d raised too much dust with her broom.

I don’t oversugar my rhubarb, so this amount suits me perfectly. But if you prefer a sweeter profile, especially against the tartness of the yogurt, toss in a few extra teaspoons of sugar.

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