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honey

[huhn-ee] / ˈhʌn i /


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This year, the bees have produced 150 jars of honey – all of which is done in a workshop on the centre roof.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Dessert featured the two leaders and their fellow diners tucking into vanilla crémeux with sour cherry confit, with an accompanying ice cream "made with harvested White House honey".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Don’t glaze them with honey or maple syrup — sugar!

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

She passed an enormous fallen log that swarmed with bees, but she didn’t dare try to get the honey.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Vermont-based Runamok has a serious selection of honeys to play with: Try those infused with hibiscus flower, Arbol chiles or lemon verbena, to name a few.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

For breakfast, he requires a selection of six honeys and a special mix of muesli, and to end a meal, a plate of local cheese.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023

I wish there more details about the honeys offered and how to use honey, such as Nicole's note about its viscosity and how it can change so much once cooked.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 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

Did’n ole Scip tell you, honeys, dat dis was gwine to be de boss Christmas?

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

They burst into action with an explosion of pyrotechnics and fireworks with Hooligan, which showcased their trademark blend of honeyed harmonies and crisp rap verses.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Cool dawn in a bowl, Soft clouds swirl with honeyed light— Morning blooms in white.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

“Howling” — the fierce yet honeyed lead track on “Awe” — saw the group transformed into a futuristic wolf pack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Think: lentils and sun-dried tomatoes folded into dough, or blueberry-stuffed pierogi served with honeyed sour cream.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025

He was surrounded by the scent of wood smoke mixed with distant honeyed flowers.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

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

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

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

Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There are none of the fine expressions of friendship, none of the many honied words, none of the encomiums on his correspondent's good nature and humility.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

His thirty pound order from Vernon, was at first ranked among his dear honied delights enjoyed at Newport; but it soon presented, as we shall see, a roughsting.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems

Thus the waters gave birth to the first insects, and their earliest families were not of those which suck honied juices or the blood of animals, or which pass through a worm-like infancy.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson




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