sweet on

Example Sentences

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From another angle, though, Kelly isn’t souring on Trump—she’s just sweet on his new anti-war critics.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

The water was soft and sweet on the tongue.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Chase makes virtuosically parched, percussive exhalations; she can be sheerly sweet on the standard flute and has, on the enormous contrabass flute, the milky penetration of a whale’s deep-sea call.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Alexandra Shipp, playing a young doctor Junior is sweet on, likes Junior’s civilized ways until she sees him showing unexpected skills in a gunfight.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2019

Well, her sleeping like an old maid did prove one thing: she and Grandpa hadn’t been sweet on each other before Granny died.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns