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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 bit sweet for my taste.

ADV.

extremely, very | a bit, quite, rather, slightly | enough
Is the tea sweet enough for you?
sickly
an overpowering, sickly sweet smell

2. nice

VERBS

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

ADV.

awfully, really, terribly, very | quite, rather

PREP.

to
She was really sweet to me.

PHRASES

sweet little
a rather sweet little cottage

Collocations for sweet - noun

ADJ.

chewy, sugary | boiled

QUANT.

bag, box, packet, tube

VERB + SWEET

eat, suck
sucking a boiled sweet

SWEET + NOUN

shop

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