honey-sweet
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of honey-sweet
before 1000; Middle English hony sweete, Old English hunig swēte
Example Sentences
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Sometimes G was a people pleaser, offering to cook or clean for Clark in a honey-sweet voice.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2022
“He added elements of bebop, swing and blues,” noted the Contra Costa Times, “into an idiosyncratic style that revolves around his dry, satiric wit and honey-sweet Southern drawl.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2016
Winchester’s songs and his slightly dusky, honey-sweet voice oozed Southern charm.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2014
Really, Paramount Pictures is daring us not to Anchormanize this cocktail, which combines scotch and Drambuie, the scotch-based, honey-sweet, herb-scented liqueur that, like Ron Burgundy, regards itself as a “legend.”
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2013
They wept, so great was their desire to stay, tasting forever the honey-sweet flowers.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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