Sentence examples for sweet year for from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Yet the 1990s were bitter-sweet years for her.

"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.

New Year's celebrants symbolically express these desires through wearing new clothes, settling debts, eating apples and honey for a sweet year, eating black-eyed peas for a prosperous year, eating noodles for a long life.

Figs, apples and honey are there for prayers for a sweet year.

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.

At our extended family Rosh Hashanah dinners we dip challah and apples into honey at the start of our meal and pray for a sweet year to come.

Surrounded by my family in New Jersey, I listened to the shofar's sound ring in the Jewish New Year and dipped apples into honey to hope for a sweet year.

I also baked round challah bread (the Jewish brioche), shaped that way to recognize the cycle of life and we dipped pieces into honey in hopes for a sweet year.

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