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Example sentences for "palates"

Lexicographically close words:
palatability; palatable; palatal; palatalized; palate; palatial; palatin; palatines; palatio; palatium
  1. Another time he said of tea: "What a delightful beverage must that be that pleases all palates at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfast.

  2. Properly prepared, it is a delightful beverage: but incorrectly made, it becomes an imposition upon the palates of mankind.

  3. Smoked Cheddar Rabbit With or without smoked fish, Rabbit-hunters whose palates crave the savor of a wisp of smoke go for a Basic Rabbit made with smoked Cheddar in place of the usual aged, but unsmoked, Cheddar.

  4. They may clear their palates with plain bread, but nary a crumb of Roquefort or cube of Gruyère in working hours, lest it give the wine a spurious nobility.

  5. The flavor of “smothered” chicken—so named by the Virginia housewife of the olden time—is peculiar, and to most palates delightful.

  6. The flavor of this cake is peculiar, but to most palates very pleasant.

  7. The unlucky little "nig" in the meanwhile kept up the most unearthly yells, for so great was the depravity among them that they had rather have their palates down than up.

  8. Pigs were roaming at will, only to be confiscated by a soldier; chickens and geese were found in large numbers, and we regaled our palates with sweet potatoes, sugar cane, roast pig and broiled chickens.

  9. Friends were not wanting to regale our palates with choice food to supercede the rations of Uncle Sam, and to ply all manner of questions regarding our general health and condition.

  10. An icehouse should not be regarded as an object of mere luxury, for pleasing the palates of gourmands with iced creams and orgeats.

  11. Underwood, distiller, who after studying the art at Schiedam, tried to introduce that spirit into general consumption in this country, but found the palates of our gin-drinkers too much corrupted to relish so pure a beverage.

  12. Can you never understand that all women haven't the palates of ostriches?

  13. Virgil appears to place it in the same rank with flowers; and Ovid gives it a tender epithet, which delicate palates would not disavow.

  14. We must make it our main Business and Study to think and write well, and not labour to submit other People's Palates and Opinions to our own; which is the greater difficulty of the two.

  15. Then, and only then, will what is else water be turned by His touch and blessing into wine that shall fill the great jars to the brim, and be pronounced by skilled palates to be the good wine.

  16. If any man wants dainties that will tickle the palates of Epicureans, let him go somewhere else.

  17. Cleft palates were also observed in a number of pups born in Buffalo.

  18. If it were possible to practise selective breeding in man as in dogs a race of men with hare-lips and cleft palates could probably be produced.

  19. Cleft palates are comparatively rare in proportion to other forms of nutritive degeneracy.

  20. Such food would disgust the civilised man who prefers his game "high," and would perhaps kill other civilised people whose palates and stomachs have been educated to avoid impurities.

  21. Need I say that our moral palates were yet susceptible of these delightful impressions.

  22. We were now in the province of Burgundy, and, to say nothing of the historical recollections, the vineyards were all about us that delighted the palates of the world.

  23. The fine flavour of real life in the book seems to me to be of the putrid kind which some palates relish, perhaps; but it cannot be wholesome, and it may be poisonous.

  24. Courtly phrases are pleasant plums, even to latter-day palates which are losing all taste for such dainties; but they are not nourishing.

  25. She told them remarkably well too, and knew exactly how to suit them to palates which were only just beginning to acquire a taste for such fare, and were still fastidious.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.