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How to use mead in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Mead means an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. Example: “I sure would be much happier with a tankard of mead right about now.”

Examples of mead by meaning

nounAn alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

  • No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131

More sentences with mead

  • I sure would be much happier with a tankard of mead right about now.From the entry tankard
  • You're such a doat!” She raised her cup of mead in salute.2013, Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden. From the entry thoughty
  • She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry homebrewed
  • On the second night of feasting he slips powder into her mead and she falls easily into his arms.2001, Moyra Caldecott, Three Celtic Tales, page 39. From the entry opportuning
  • It is Homer’s “asphodelos leimon,” the daffodilly mead or meadow, descriptive of Elysium, the Hesperides or western isles of departed shades.1992, A[lexander] B. Chambers, “[Robert] Herrick and the Ceremonies of Art”, in Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry…. From the entry daffodilly
  • But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel.1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron. From the entry metheglin
  • The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 30. From the entry beaker
  • People used to come to the Upper Midwest's only dedicated meadery and say, "Huh?" Or perhaps something like, "Oh, yeah, mead, isn't that what Beowulf drank?"2008, Patricia Monaghan, Wineries of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry meadery
  • First chalky Wey, for rav'nous pikes renown'd, Rolls through the meads and fruitifies the ground: His milky waves enrich the thirsty soil, And joyous crops reward the mower's toil.1921, The Contemporary Review - Volume 125, page 775. From the entry fruitify

Meaning of mead

  1. noun An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
  2. noun A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
  3. noun A meadow.

Full definition of mead

Questions about mead in a sentence

How do you use mead in a sentence?
Mead is used as a noun. For example: “I sure would be much happier with a tankard of mead right about now.”
What is a short sentence with mead?
“The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.”
What does mead mean?
Mead means an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

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