The word 'sweets' is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when referring to candy, desserts, or any other items that are particularly sweet. For example, "I love to indulge in a box of chocolates and other sweets every now and then."
In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
There are gratuitous new restrictions on an already heavily curtailed right to strike, plans to rob the earnings of migrants who may work hard but lack the proper paperwork, and such a sweeping ban on legal highs that government lawyers could soon be fretting about accidentally criminalising sweets that give a sugar rush.
Whole lines of sweets vanish in zooming animation.
Suddenly, many sweets appear, lined up in rows and columns.
She allows for any of the three, while Seal specifies walnuts in her book The Islands of Greece, as does Arto der Haroutunian in his classic Sweets and Desserts from the Middle East.
We didn't do the special cake we do every Eid and didn't even buy the sweets we used to buy every Eid to offer to our guests.
A party atmosphere, complete with food vans, balloons and a sound system, provided the backdrop to an event attended by dozens of former residents of Sweets Way, Whetstone, in Barnet, as housing activists from across London spent the night on the estate.
Brand's website says: "Sweets Way Resists is a campaign led by residents of the Sweets Way estate in Barnet and their supporters, to prevent the social cleansing of our north London community by Annington Homes and Barnet Homes.
There are stories about them marauding around the Commons, colonising the bars, being "chippy and confrontational", feasting on chips and sweets (Mhairi Black), taking forbidden selfies at the PM's dispatch box (you know who you are, Roger Mullin) and generally whooping it up.
Pink candy-striped bags of sweets are stacked on a table at the University of Bedfordshire's students' union, alongside free pin badges, inscribed pens and balloons.
A range of snacks were on offer throughout the proceedings – sweets, biscuits, and popcorn in paper cones.
