sweet
adjective
having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
sweets
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pluralof sweet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That was when the 30-year-old from Kettering adopted the mantra of "shy girls don't get sweets" and she ended up three shots behind.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Catherine, meanwhile, had run to seed and spent as much time as possible lying in bed eating sweets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
WSJ: How are consumers responding to new restrictions on what shoppers can buy with food stamps, including sweets in some states?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Americans are shifting from traditional sweets, with chocolate’s snack consumption share down 2.6 percentage points since 2010.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Back to me and Amil falling asleep with the taste of sweets on our tongues and thoughts of the things that happened at school that day.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
