honey
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Instead, Blythe chose honey over vinegar and launched a lobbying effort to convince state legislators and the governor that the town needed some kind of economic rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
But Kyla says she personally loves the ones which play on the lyrics "baby" and "honey" by using dolls and real honey as props.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
In the prairie province of Alberta, Lorne Prins fears the tariffs could send honey prices “into a free fall.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“I’m not really the kind of person that would take a selfie,” she says, sipping tea with honey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I know you won’t forget, honey, but sometimes it’s nice to have something that once belonged to someone you loved. Then you can think of them every time you see it.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Jams, jellies and honeys make perfect pairings for much of what’s on offer.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
What else does Savannah Bee sell aside from strictly honeys?
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023
Vendors are hawking flower crowns, drinking horns, herbal tea blends and artisanal wildflower honeys while the pop-up taverns declaring “COLD DRYNKS” attend to parched wayfarers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
The raw honeys, including a slightly citric sourwood and a very floral tulip poplar, are $12 to $16 for 12 to 16 ounces.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
To her, boy, to her, go to her.——That's it, little honeys, O that's it!
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
She explained that she and her siblings would deliberately choose long bedtime stories to spend more time listening to their father read aloud, describing his voice as "honeyed".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Cool dawn in a bowl, Soft clouds swirl with honeyed light— Morning blooms in white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Think: lentils and sun-dried tomatoes folded into dough, or blueberry-stuffed pierogi served with honeyed sour cream.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
And not just catchy phrases: The “nameless” attracts thousands of followers on Instagram with honeyed images and all the proper wellness hashtags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
As he said this, my honeyed slumber left me.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Russian Journey is his most interesting book to date and offers a penetrating glimpse of the enigmatic bear which is currently bent on retracting its claws and honeying up the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ay, but the young colt winced and whinnied and flung up her heels; and then the King came honeying about her, and this Becket, her father's friend, like enough staved us from her.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
I’d always felt that way, too, till he come honeying round me this spring.
From Captain Pott's Minister by Francis L. (Francis Le Roy) Cooper
So she set briskly about her task, honeying Eugene the while, for she was confident that this above all things was the thing he needed.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
But honeying at the whisper of a lord: And one the Master, as a rogue in grain, Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.'
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Sleek from good living, his hood fell without a wrinkle over his portly person; and bowing in devotion before his superiors, the words of flattery flowed in profusion from his honied tongue.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The under butler all blandness and honied words.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
But in my dreams,—in honied sleep,— 'Tis I to smile, and she to weep!
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay