sherbet
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He illuminated the auditorium with candles and converted the private boxes into buffets stocked with alcohol, coffee, hot chocolate, sherbet and carved meats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
It was incredibly sweet and slightly sour and fruity, reminding me of lemon sherbet.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
Cool off with this family-friendly nonalcoholic cocktail that features a refreshing combination of homemade orange sherbet bobbing about in orange juice and seltzer.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2023
Olaf Danilsen’s lighting bathes the stage and backdrop in sherbet or sorbet hues.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Lil looked at me like she was going to throw the rest of her raspberry sherbet in my face.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The 800-square-foot shop serves 40 flavors of ice cream alongside sherbets, sorbets and fresh-fruit freezes; I opted for two scoops of strawberry cheesecake.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018
Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2016
There were savoury sausages, and sweet sherbets of every flavour, with coinciding lollipops to dip in them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
The provocatively named passion fruit, though adding a bright sophisticated flavor to sherbets and creamy desserts, is unpleasantly cloying when eaten plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For Cornelia was surfeited with strange dishes, and rare sherbets, flowers, and music; surfeited with everything save the words that fell from the lips of Cleopatra.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
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