honey
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This version simmers ripe peaches with honey and whole black peppercorns until the fruit collapses and the syrup turns fragrant, floral and just a little prickly.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Whole Foods began selling Hot Girl Pickles in September 2025; they come in garlic cumin and honey harissa flavors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Taste for honey and grapes fatal,” The Times wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
However, the young woman soon learns that the world of honey isn't as sweet as it seems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Miss Mortimer brought her cups of soothing tea laced with honey, and the children laughed and clapped to see her acting out all her thoughts, rather than speaking them.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Jams, jellies and honeys make perfect pairings for much of what’s on offer.
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
"Dar now, honeys," he said, as he carefully blanketed them.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
On a recent evening, from a seat at the restaurant’s fluted blonde-wood bar, I watched as a blaze of honeyed light poured through a wall of windows overlooking sloping vineyards and the Appalachian foothills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
But on the eve of her 22nd birthday, Selines — who speaks in the same honeyed, dulcet tones she sings in — admits that she cringes at the sound of her own teen yearning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Think clusters of honeyed oats, a handful of nuts, a whisper of cinnamon or maple, a pinch of sea salt.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2025
Hizdahr had stocked their box with flagons of chilled wine and sweetwater, with figs, dates, melons, and pomegranates, with pecans and peppers and a big bowl of honeyed locusts.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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
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
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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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
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
The evening sounds are very charming— “The milk that bubbled in the pail, And buzzings of the honied hours,” when the bees were gathering their last stores of the day.
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty