taste buds

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Oval-shaped clusters of cells located on the tongue and lining of the mouth that contain special nerve endings that help give rise to the sense of taste.

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How to use taste buds in a sentence

The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.
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Whisk in the half and half and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.
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The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.
BBC Reporter Gets High On The Job|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For Paul, the thrill of breakfast with the Reverend, may be giving way to the taste of burnt toast.
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
Children's Ways|James Sully
In connection with this step the practice of melodies is useful, if one has musical taste.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
She fancied there was a sympathy of thought and taste between them, in which fancy she was mistaken.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

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