Sweet

a sweet apple

A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.

Sweet wines are better dessert wines.

sweet butter

a sweet scent

Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, / I will give them all back again.

a sweet tune

Smooth jazz music has sweet drum beats and cymbals!

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful

a sweet child

It was sweet of her to send some roses for her unwell grandmother.

You're so sweet!

There's something tragic, but almost pure / Think I could love you, but I'm not sure / There's something wholesome, there's something sweet / Tucked in your eyes that I'd love to meet

It was sweet of him to help out.

sweet crude oil

The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.

Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.

14 November 2014, Steven Haliday, Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero GORDON Strachan enjoyed the sweetest of his 16 matches in charge of Scotland so far as his team enhanced their prospects of Euro 2016 qualification with a crucial and deserved victory over Republic of Ireland.

"Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then."

The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.

sweet water

The white of an egg, or blood mingled with salt water, doth gather the saltness and maketh the water sweeter; this may be by adhesion.

Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet at sea, during long voyages, as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled.

a sweet face

a sweet colour or complexion

Sweet interchange / Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.

For someone who hadn't seen her only sister in over twenty years, Alice sure took her sweet time.

They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!

Go down beside thy native rill, ⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet, ⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet About the ledges of the hill.

Can we see the sweet menu, please?

VVherefore frovvnes my ſvveet? / Haue I too long bene abſent from theſe lips, / This cheeke, theſe eyes?

"You think that I'll take anything." "I know you will, sweet..." "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be." "Well, there is now," she said sweetly.

Good evening, my sweet.

a wilderness of sweets

Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar.

In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar.

It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups.

Bring me now where the warm wind blows, where the grasses sigh, where the sweet-tongued blossom flowers; where the shower, fan soft like a fishermans net thrown through the sweeted air.

A sour maketh sweets two-fold sweeted.