sherbet
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It was incredibly sweet and slightly sour and fruity, reminding me of lemon sherbet.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025
Armed with a three-and-a-half-octave range, her voice was “as cool as sherbet, creamy, delicately colored, mildly flavored,” as Ariel Swartley wrote in Rolling Stone magazine in 1979.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Cool off with this family-friendly nonalcoholic cocktail that features a refreshing combination of homemade orange sherbet bobbing about in orange juice and seltzer.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2023
Instead, I was drawn to fruity and creamy treats, like cloyingly sweet green tea mochi ice cream, milk tea with boba and strawberry sherbet.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
The sherbet fizzed in your mouth, and if you knew how to do it, you could make white froth come out of your nostrils and pretend you were throwing a fit.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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