like honey

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Instead of stretching and thinning like honey, the tar-like liquids suddenly snapped apart.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

But does this work, or are homemade remedies like honey and lemon just as good?

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

To spruce things up, I’ll add a sweetener like honey or brown sugar and spices or use buttermilk instead.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024

Emerson pulverized a bit of hardened pahoehoe from a 1920 eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and heated the powdered rock in a furnace until it was white-hot and oozed like honey.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 9, 2023

“Pay attention. One night, long ago, as we looked at the stars, I gathered starlight on my fingertips, and fed it to you like honey from the comb.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill