Whet

//ˈwɛt//

"Whet" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Tom usually has a glass of wine before dinner to whet his appetite.

Here is an extract to whet your appetite.

Was the cliffhanger a downer or did it whet your appetite for more?

No matter how the fish looks, Parola and fellow chef Tim Creehan are teaming up with Illinois state officials in a campaign to whet the public's appetite for the Asian carp. "It’s very palatable and very pleasing when you taste it," he said.

Parola and fellow chef Tim Creehan are teaming up with Illinois state officials in a campaign to whet the public's appetite for the Asian carp. "It’s very palatable and very pleasing when you taste it," he said.

The knives are not sharp, I need to whet them.

The carefully staged event was meant to whet the appetites of the Japanese public for American beef.

Let's whet your appetite.

Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?

And the Mower whets his ſithe,

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Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.

to whet one's appetite or one's courage

Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, / I have not slept.

My faith in vegetarianism grew on me from day to day. Salt's book whetted my appetite for dietetic studies. I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them.

In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.

sips, drams, and whets

To make a nice Whet before Dinner […]

A really good game, to my mind, must have an element, however slight, of physical danger to the player. This is the great whet to skilled performance.

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