Sentence examples for nearly sweet from inspiring English sources
It fills the glass with perfume, tastes nearly sweet and is refreshingly zippy.
One minute it tastes nearly sweet, the next almost dry; either way, it is luscious.
After I decanted the medium-bodied, concentrated, nearly sweet red, subtleties became detectable within 30 minutes as it evolved.
It is smooth, with a flower-garden scent that is nearly sweet, and its flavor is vividly grapey.
McCall Wines' reserve merlot ($24), a red to linger over, is graceful and nearly sweet; the regular merlot ($18), charming and slightly vegetal, seems intended for everyday consumption.
It's still sweet, befitting its liqueur status, but not nearly sweet enough to use as an ice cream topping, as the narrator of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" was fond of doing; the sweetness is offset by a bitter tang, like that of an unripe plum.
After 30 minutes' aeration, the nifty assemblage -- 82 percent merlot, 15percentt cabernet sauvignon, 3percentt cabernet franc -- composed by Adam Suprenant, the winemaker, unfolds in a Medoc way: black-currant, licorice, lead-pencil and smoky aromas and flavors; a nearly sweet-oak background; firm tannins; restraint and balance; a longish finish.
The assemblage - 82percentt merlot, 15percentt cabernet sauvignon, 3percentt cabernet franc - composed by Adam Suprenant, the winemaker, after 30 minutes' aeration unfolds in a Medoc way: black-currant, licorice, lead pencil and smoky aromas and flavors; a nearly sweet-oak background; firm tannins; restraint and balance; a longish finish.
She is 5, a graceful and pretty child, and one of the sweetest children I know (nearly as sweet as Gertrude) — and she is so perfectly simple and unconscious that it is a matter of entire indifference to her whether she is taken in full dress or nothing.
American versions from Beringer ($8) and Nectar Valley ($5) are good as well, sweeter than the Fortant de France but not nearly as sweet as white zinfandel.
But glucose alone is not nearly as sweet.
