Sentence examples for a sweet year from inspiring English sources

The meal begins with kutya, a thick porridge of wheat berries and sugared poppy seeds that promises a sweet year ahead.

It is a widespread custom to start with a piece of apple dipped in honey while a prayer is said asking God for a sweet year.

In "A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays" (Doubleday, $12.95) Mark Podwal describes in text and paintings how each of nine holidays relates to food.

"Sweet potatoes are for a sweet year, burdock root is for strength, fish roe for lots of babies," said Naomi Sato, a teacher of English who grew up in Seattle and now lives in Kyoto.

At Rosh Hashanah, neighbors gave each other baskets of pomegranates from their yards with wishes for "chronia polla, kai kali chronia," or "many years and good years". The first taste at the start of the holiday — and to break the fast for Yom Kippur 10 days later — was of honey sprinkled with pomegranate seeds, symbolic of wishes for a sweet year of abundance.

It was a sweet year to be a TV critic.

It was a rare setback in a mostly sweet year for Tullman.

It was a very sweet year and I cried when you left that first room.

that you renew for us a good and sweet year".

One sweet year, a grove of peach trees suddenly appeared, with small, excellent fruit.

Apples are eaten with honey at the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah to symbolize a sweet new year.