sweets

Example Sentences

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The 54-year-old also offered to pay for their sweets and snacks.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Seventeen days of drama, tension and pressure, all with the crowd so close they can touch the players – or offer them sweets.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"I thought Canada is safe," he said, next to sweets spread out on the boxing ring's mat, part of festivities marking the Persian New Year, called Nowruz.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“All the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in his mind,” Emerson writes, “as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

But when you took one of the sweets and ate it.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed