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Sentence Examples
| Our youth love luxury, they contradict their parents, gobble up dainties from the table, and tyrannise their teachers. |
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| Toasted breads, luscious soup and other dainties were consumed before Sam arose from his seat to check the mail. |
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| Sweet and savory dainties packaged in appealing canisters, baskets and bags are at the heart of the Christmas bazaar. |
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| We had bacon and cabbage most days for dinner, but when our parents went to Limerick we could be assured of getting some dainties that evening. |
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| Still lifes usually show beautiful vessels filled with wine and appetizing fruit or other dainties invitingly arranged on lovely china. |
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| These dainties are consumed by groups of tourists, who eat in prim little bites and whisper among themselves like they're sitting in church. |
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| Together they went into Maude's dining room for tea, cocoa, and the dainties Maude was sure to have prepared. |
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| It was extravagantly decorated and a side table was filled with small treats and dainties. |
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| They had not found a real place in a set meal, except among the miscellaneous sweetmeats offered as dainties at the end. |
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| We feasted on shrimp, crawfish, pralines, and other dainties. |
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| There will be door prizes as well as free coffee and dainties. |
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| Then if any wish arose in me to eat of the dainties around me I gashed myself with a sharp stone. |
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| The afternoon tea consisted of pink lemonade tea, finger sandwiches and plates of dainties. |
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| Grandma's secret recipe was added to that, which made a real experience of taste to the chosen dainties. |
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| Small, fl exible silicone head fi ts into the tightest spots to serve mess-free baked goods, dainties and other dishes. |
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| If the idea of preparing the dainties seems too difficult to you, use pieces of fruit or cake. |
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| There were just dainties, and simple foods, like vegetables with dip, cracker dishes, cheese and fruit platters, and at least half a dozen trays of desserts. |
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| The leaf is worn by the club's chanteuse, and covers her dainties. |
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| He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs. |
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| When Priscus attended a banquet given by him, he noticed that Attila was served off wooden plates and ate only meat, whereas his chief lieutenants dined off silver platters loaded with dainties. |
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| Everything possible has been done to provide a setting which equals the dainties it holds, a beautiful object that will be a pleasure to keep for a long time after having savoured its contents. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Ivan and his companions had not been long seated, when a smoking dish of pilau and other Turkish dainties were placed before them. |
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| Ragweed and smartweed seeds are dainties to him as some nuts are to you, and he eats a great many. |
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| Lantier had thought of himself when he advised Virginie to deal in dainties. |
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| Your aunt must have dainties to tempt her appetite and so keep up her strength. |
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| If you do not care to share your dainties, you can hang them from the roof. |
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| I asked some of the passengers who went in for these dainties to give their opinion. |
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| Nature, disorganized with the exigences of the night shift, refused the proffered dainties. |
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| Folks did not know then, as well as they do now, that they had the stomachache because they were too fond of rich dainties. |
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| Perhaps because syllabub and cream were the recognized dainties of the festival. |
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| It may be that like little red riding hood in the nursery tale she is carrying some dainties to her grandmother. |
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| Pineapples, bananas, great baskets of fancy cakes, and other dainties attracted their wonder-stricken gaze. |
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| John unwrapped the dainties and threw the paper on the floor. |
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| The rolls and other 'sour-dough' dainties are baked in a Dutch oven. |
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| Two baskets filled with dainties and a demi-john came to this office. |
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| We stuffed the pink dainties with mint, and baked them in balls of clay. |
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| A poor chance I have of getting that county I am waiting for if your worship goes looking for dainties in the bottom of the sea. |
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| Tell me, the first time you tasted oysters, tea, porter, truffles, and sundry other dainties which you now adore, did you like them? |
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| Do not tempt the palate by a great variety of unhealthful dainties. |
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| Most ambrosial dainties are known to the cooks of this parish. |
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| Let the choicest dainties be heaped together in unbounded profusion. |
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| The owners, who officiate as caterers for the voyage, supply the larder with an abundance of dainties. |
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| On the contrary, having always fed heartily on pumpkin-pies, doughnuts, Indian puddings, and other Puritan dainties, she was as round and plump as a pudding herself. |
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| Even the servants, as they knelt down to present the dishes, might be seen to grin and sneer, while the guests were helping themselves to the offered dainties. |
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