Examples of cider in a Sentence

a cup of apple cider

Recent Examples on the Web At the very least, replace the water on the package with apple cider, coffee, even pink Champagne. — Anne Byrn, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2022 Serve in a highball glass filled with ice cubes and top it off with the cider. — Megan Murphy, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2021 It is billed as having a touch of cinnamon, honey, and is steeped with apple cider from Quarry Hill Orchards in Berlin Heights. — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021 Buttery Parker House Rolls provide the inspiration for these easy-to-make dinner rolls, which are sweetened with fresh apple cider that’s been boiled down to a syrup. — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021 Caramel is already an iconic fall flavor, but these sweets from Southern Caramel kick things up a notch with these candies made with Vermont apple cider. — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021 Add the apples to an 8- to 10-quart heavy pot ($60, Walmart) with apple cider or apple juice. — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2021 In Minnetonka, Reach for Resources, Inc., which provides mental health services, is luring donors with the chance to win a sleigh ride with apple cider and cocoa. — Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020 In the summer, a lemonade ice ball replaces the apple cider. — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Mar. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for cider

Middle English sider, sedyr, cidre "alcoholic drink (in Biblical translations and references), cider," borrowed from Anglo-French sizre, ciser, cydre, going back to Gallo-Romance *cīsera, by metathesis form of Late Latin (Vulgate) sīcera "alcoholic drink," borrowed from Greek (Septuagint) síkera, borrowed from Hebrew shēkhār, from a Semitic base š-k-r, whence Hebrew shākhar "become drunk," Arabic sikara

Note: The medieval French form sizre is attested once, in the 12th-century Cambridge, or Eadwine Psalter, where it appears as a translation of the Latin siceram in Psalm 68:14 (the Vulgate has vinum in this passage). (For other medieval outcomes and modern dialect forms see Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, v. 11, pp. 589-90.) Presumably *cīs(ĕ)ra yielded *tsizdra, which with loss of the internal sibilant yielded cidre (see Pierre Fouché, Phonétique historique du français, vol. 3 [Paris: Klincksieck, 1966], p. 822). Latin sīcera and its vernacular outcomes were likely disseminated and applied to the fermented juice of fruit, especially apples, in monasteries, particularly in non-wine-producing areas of Europe such as Normandy; Norman localization would also account for the thorough penetration of the word into Anglo-French.

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