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

At their feet were piled betel leaves, rice and a host of sweetmeats.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya