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Collocations for sweet - noun

→ See also candy

ADJECTIVE

chewy, jelly, sugary
boiled
cough, throat

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… OF SWEETS

bag, box, packet

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VERB + sweet

eat, suck
I was sucking a boiled sweet.

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sweet + NOUN

shop

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Collocations for sweet - adj.

1. tasting like sugar/smelling pleasant

VERBS

be, smell, taste
The air smelled sweet and clean.
make sth
find sth
I found the dessert a little sweet for my taste.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
a little, slightly, etc.
enough
Is the tea sweet enough for you?
sickly
an overpowering, sickly sweet smell

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2. nice

VERBS

be, look, seem, sound
keep sb (informal)
He'd promised her a new car, just to keep her sweet (= keep her in a good mood).

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ADVERB

awfully, really, terribly, very
sickeningly, sugary
a sickeningly sweet smile

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PREPOSITION

to
She was really sweet to me.

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PHRASES

dear sweet …
My dear sweet sister Jillie.
short and sweet
I'll keep it short and sweet (= speak briefly).
sweet and innocent
She looked so sweet and innocent.
sweet little
a sweet little smile

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Sweet is used with these nouns:
air, apple, aroma, champagne, cherry, cider, coffee, corn, craving, cream, deal, dessert, dish, disposition, drink, embrace, face, flavour, flesh, food, fragrance, fruit, gesture, girl, grape, guy, innocence, jar, kiss, lady, melody, memory, music, odour, onion, orange, pastry, pepper, perfume, potato, relief, revenge, roll, sauce, scent, sherry, smell, smile, snack, sound, spot, talk, taste, tea, thing, tone, treat, trolley, voice, wine, wrapper

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