bittersweet
Example Sentences
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“It’s bittersweet to have a place this long, because you do go through the generations,” Cox said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The merger with Paramount, which the companies aim to close by the end of September, has cast a pall over Warner Bros., making its box-office success this year bittersweet.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026
It softens the harsher edges of coffee and bittersweet chocolate, adding warmth without sweetness.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026
"I guess it's bittersweet that I'm the first one, the first woman, to get it," she told BBC News.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
This time the ornaments were nature’s brilliant red-and-yellow necklaces of bittersweet, pungent pinecones, wine-red clusters of sumac berries, abandoned bird-bodied boats of milkweed, delicate thumb-size goblets of Queen Anne’s lace.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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