Example Sentences

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As a starter for 10, it was the ultimate appetite whetter.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

When you see them you know what you want; and a half-dozen raw, with a simple salad dressing, were little more than a whetter on the blockade.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

Down to the earth an iron fetter Fast held us, trembling captive crew; Fear of Law's sword, grim Death the whetter, Did swallow up hope's residue.

From Rampolli by MacDonald, George

"Ye hae dune weel," he said—"ye hae whetted my appetite for my ain life; and it matters naething that the whetter and the whet-stane are taen awa when they're nae mair needed!"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay

As to the other two, they were examples of the truth of that physical observation, that love, like other sweet things, is no whetter of the stomach.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry