cleanser
Example Sentences
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Akers has just the palate cleanser in “To Kill a Cook”, a homage to 1970s Manhattan and its fine dining temples.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
By the time you’re invited to nibble the pulp off seeds straight from a tamarind pod, a palate cleanser before dessert, you may have forgotten that the island you’re on is Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Executives will clearly be hoping for a fresh start - a palate cleanser if you like - for the show as well as for the wider TV industry.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025
Fennel is inescapable here, dotting the tables of nearly every Italian-American household, often served raw as a palate cleanser.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
Using the cleanser that smells like lemons for the counter, and the one that smells like bleach for the sink.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.