taste buds

Example Sentences

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They can help your gut, your blood pressure, your cholesterol—and your taste buds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

Kim White, Levon’s mother, said she didn’t try sushi until she was an adult, and is amazed by her kids’ taste buds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The kind that makes your mouth pucker and your tongue go numb from all the acids decimating your taste buds.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2025

To some, pie means flirtatious cherries, cinnamon-kissed apples or pleasantly puckering lemon awakening the taste buds.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2025

My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel