palate

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of palate This short rib stew will satisfy any cravings for warming comfort food, while tingling the palate with the smoky heat of chipotle peppers and Southwestern spice. Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025 Other early innovations, such as fish sticks, were created not to delight the palate but to sell food that many people considered inferior. Meghan McCarron, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025 In a true Babygirl moment, Gaga also took a big swig of milk to cleanse her palate. Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025 My tween self wrote a letter to myself stating that my ideal person would have a crooked smile, a sense of humor, honest eyes and a creative palate. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for palate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palate
Noun
  • Regardless of your particular tastes in Cochran covers, MacMahon hopes a deeper message comes through the film about dedication and perseverance.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2025
  • This may have been the best one yet, giving Davis a taste of his own medicine.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, the appetite for Spanish content, especially from Atresmedia, remains high, and international audiences continue to embrace our productions.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Symptoms in cats include fever, low appetite, lethargy, reddened or inflamed eyes, discharge from eyes and nose, and difficulty breathing.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Feel free to use your favorite peppers, and increase or decrease the heat according to your liking.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2025
  • All are eager to rearrange the party more to their ideological liking, though their views of how to fix what went wrong are often diametrically opposed.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This preference is more popular amongst Millennials (67%) compared to Boomers (37%).
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • That preference was on display in August last year, when the KMT’s Hsia visited China amid lingering tensions over Pelosi’s visit.
    Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • That greater success stems in part from the fact that by engaging the same receptors stimulated by fentanyl and other illicit opioids, buprenorphine (and methadone) can greatly blunt cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The main difference between physical hunger and emotional eating is that emotional eating starts in the brain and includes sudden onset feelings of anxiety or sadness, specific cravings, not feeling satisfied even when full, and feelings of guilt after eating.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That desire for better packing solutions inspired her to create Ries, which offers leak-proof reusable and washable travel containers.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In its ruling, the court said that Mr. Kimura, who was unemployed, had tried to kill the prime minister out of a desire to gain public attention.
    Martin Fackler, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Frankenheimer’s ability to use the space around his characters extends to another strength of the film, which is its deft use of Northern Michigan locations.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Fortunately, Beckham's use of the phrase was down to little more than overhearing a song.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This sort of implicit address to the work’s spectators, and to their unquenchable thirst for more, also crops up in some of the photographer’s graver pictures.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
  • After 14 days isolated below, Collins died of thirst, hunger and hypothermia.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Palate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on palate

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!