Example sentences for: saccharine

How can you use “saccharine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.

  • "The most saccharine of the Rodgers and Hammerstein" collaborations, says New York 's John Simon.

  • An early cluster of smallish water lily paintings, two on circular canvases, that Monet exhibited in Paris in 1909 are almost saccharine in their placid beauty, visual equivalents of some of Debussy's prettier preludes.

  • Those who can tolerate the movie's saccharine overdose praise the solid performances by Anthony Hopkins, as the tycoon whom Pitt has come to escort to the other side, and Claire Forlani, as the tycoon's daughter who falls in love with Pitt.


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