sweetmeats

Example Sentences

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Pilgrims purchase coconuts, sweetmeats, flowers, and incense for their ritualistic offerings.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Gifting new clothes and sweetmeats is a key part of the celebrations.

From Reuters • Apr. 11, 2023

Today, in Malaysia, the Kristang are known mostly for their curries and sweetmeats or for their guitar-playing troubadours — a once-vibrant community diminished to cultural clichés.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2020

Valentine’s Day 2012: There were red roses and pink balloons, sweetmeats molded into hearts and fireworks that shattered the icy Beijing air.

From Time • Oct. 22, 2015

My mother and aunts hurried to the kitchen and prepared cakes, cookies, and sweetmeats with more care than ever before.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin