sherbet

Example Sentences

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I side-eyed Sabre’s prices, then ordered a cheap set with cheerful plastic handles in various sherbet hues.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 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

Then came the Romans who brought hard durum wheat, and the Arabs who introduced sherbet, couscous and eggplant, not to mention a penchant for stuffed foods, pistachios and spices like saffron and cinnamon.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2023

When Miss World became popular in India, it also brought a different idea of beauty - of tiny sculpted waists, sherbet gowns and a heavily contoured face.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

There were goblets, sherbet glasses, ice-cream glasses, wine glasses, green glass coffee cups with matching saucers, and water glasses.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou