Sweeten

//ˈswiːtən//

"Sweeten" in a Sentence (24 examples)

The dress is too expensive. Can't you sweeten the deal a little?

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Don't try to sweeten the pill.

I sweeten coffee with molasses instead of sugar.

Ziri is here to sweeten Rima's life.

Tom sweetened his tea with honey; Mary didn't sweeten hers at all.

I started to sweeten my coffee with honey.

Don't sweeten my coffee.

We really need this deal, Tom. Try to sweeten her up. Buy her the most expensive wine you can find. Do whatever it takes.

to sweeten tea

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to sweeten life

to sweeten friendship

to sweeten the temper

to sweeten the cares of life

Our God to bless out home delights, / And sweeten every secret tear:— [...]

Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.

to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected

to sweeten the air

to dry and sweeten soils

[T]hey had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn[.]

to sweeten water, butter, or meat

to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered

In most popular music the bowed strings usually play long, sustained, sweeping parts, and are sometimes added to a vocal track later in a process known as sweetening.

Rather than employ strings to “sweeten” the songs, Motown's arrangements used strings as a timbral layer, in conjunction with syncopated horn lines, for a fuller sound; […]

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