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honey

[huhn-ee] / ˈhʌn i /


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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

Plus, Canadian honey producers are feeling the sting; this week’s earnings lineup.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Many small and midsize Canadian business owners producing everything from honey to art to cosmetics are expected to bear the brunt of the pain from President Trump’s new tariffs, the Journal’s Amanda Coletta writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Frankie had ordered honey cake, but the dessert the waiter brought looked nothing like the dense golden-brown slabs of lekach baked for the new year.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

This countertop infusion machine automates every step—drying, decarboxylation, and infusion—letting you infuse oils, butters, honeys, and more without the usual guesswork.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2025

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

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

A new ramp vinegar, called Zeal, is from Brightland, a company based in Los Angeles that gets its products, mostly olive oils, vinegars and honeys, from small producers in California and elsewhere.

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2022

It is granted me to sing the wanton Bacchanalian priestess, and the fountain of wine, and rivulets flowing with milk, and to tell again of the honeys distilling from the hollow trunks.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

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

Roasted fruit welcomes herbs: rosemary with grapes, thyme with honeyed peaches, basil with strawberries.

From Salon Mar. 17, 2026

“All of my dreams came true, the bigger the ocean, the deeper the blue / Call me a model, an actress, whatever,” she sings with her honeyed lilt.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2024

By then, the sky had darkened to the rich, honeyed depth of Baltic amber.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

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

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

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 was no melancholy in the honied tone of the chime, and it gave him a glow that went with him happily throughout the dreary day.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Marie Van Vorst

No fair arms around him cling, Ne'er he tastes a honied kiss; Songs that ancient dreamers sing, Those alone afford him bliss.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

And as she looked and listened to his sweet and honied sentences, she felt that all around would darken down to naked waste without his society.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling




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