sweeten - use in sentences

Followed by a transitive particle

  • up: Kenneth Clarke is gambling on the old formula of tax cuts in the budget in an attempt to sweeten up the electorate.

Object

  • pill: In fact, the author has taken further measures to sweeten the pill.
  • breath: The pods are also chewed to aid in digestion and to sweeten the breath; a habit started with by the Moghuls.
  • pot: But what really sweetens the pot is knowing the honey in my tea is at work even if I'm not.
  • tea: Poor families are now forced to feed their infants sweetened tea instead of milk.
  • milk: For the first few days give your baby grain milk sweetened with rice syrup or barley malt.
  • drink: In the first exercise trial, both groups were given a sweetened placebo drink to consume during the session.

Preposition: with

  • honey: Can be drunk hot or cold, plain or sweetened with honey.
  • sugar: We were drinking coffee sweetened with sugar we had brought.
  • juice: Alphabet biscuits letter shaped biscuits sweetened only with grape juice.
  • syrup: For the first few days give your baby grain milk sweetened with rice syrup or barley malt.
  • sweetener: Serve " upside down " with custard made with skimmed milk and sweetened with artificial sweetener.
  • fruit: They are flavored with oat, brome and orchard grasses and only sweetened with organic fruits.

Infinitive complement

  • taste: Allow to cool add honey to sweeten to taste.

Modifying Another Word

  • artificially: Even artificially sweetened drinks still cause you to crave sweets - get off them.
  • naturally: They are naturally sweetened with no artificial flavorings or colors.
  • only: Alphabet biscuits letter shaped biscuits sweetened only with grape juice.
  • slightly: Sunday Post Quiz Answers, August 5, 2001 1 You'd eat it, it's a slightly sweetened bun.
  • then: Kill the yeast with some sodium or potassium met, then sweeten to taste.
  • usually: Diabetic chocolates are usually sweetened with a type of sugar called a ' polyol ' .

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