How to Use bittersweet in a Sentence

bittersweet

1 of 2 noun

• For many of those who live in Genoa, then, the opening of the new bridge is at best bittersweet.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• One of the worst is oriental bittersweet, which is a fiend in the woods and meadows.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• It’s about regrets and reliefs, the melancholy and the bittersweet.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Place bittersweet chocolate in a small bowl with the coconut oil.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2020
• But this was about the final season in Oakland as well, with the memories and the tears and the taste of bittersweet.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2019
• In this way, the crust is a little bittersweet, which serves as a counterpoint to the rich filling.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2020
• The leak may reveal a big detail in this bittersweet No Way Home ending.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Dec. 2021
• Their next on-court meeting will come in the Big Ten, which was why the ending Wednesday was a little bittersweet.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
• Bittersweet: For all that, we’re reminded as late as the very last song that both cherries and the world of this show can be bitter as well as sweet.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2017
• Both brothers said that makes the moment a little bittersweet.
  — Dallas News, 31 July 2020
• The heart of this piece is its arrival at a few bars of repose near the end of the last movement, a moment of bittersweet, heart-stopping suspension.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• The rapport between Jamie and this infant is bittersweet.
  — Angelica Jade BastiÉn, New York Times, 28 May 2016
• This, this is a, obviously one that is a little bittersweet for some of us on this podcast.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• The moment was bittersweet: one-year-old Abduweli is Meripet's only child in Turkey.
  — Yanan Wang and Dake Kang, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2018
• Cry Macho gives us two endings — one evenly bittersweet, the other more firmly to either side of the line.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Build the backbone To make the actual wreath frame, use willow or a vine like wisteria, grape or bittersweet.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 8 Dec. 2017
• This is a little bittersweet, coming from the retailer background, but the industry has changed so much over the last decade.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2020
• Bei Bei quickly became a favorite on the zoo’s Panda Cam, and fans bid a bittersweet farewell to the cub online with the hashtag #byebyebeibei.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Dump two cups each of semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, bittersweet chocolate chips and white chocolate chips in a big cast-iron skillet.
  — al, 4 Apr. 2021
• For Gulati, too, Wednesday’s win allowed him to come full circle from the Qatar defeat—though not without its own tinges of bittersweet.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 13 June 2018
• Reuniting with people who mean so much to him as been a little bittersweet, Solis said.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Most baseball jobs saved There is other A’s news, also a little bittersweet.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Prepare to be moved once again by the familiar P.I. Tchaikovsky score and a conclusion that can only be described as bittersweet.
  — Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 2020
• The season 2 finale of Starz’s Vida was the very definition of bittersweet.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• Leaving for part of Season 6 was bittersweet for Clapton.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2017
• Discs landed in thick clumps of bittersweet, underneath bushes, into fields of tall grass.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 Aug. 2017
• Her freshman year bookended with another chance to see her sister play, though this one was a shade bittersweet.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2017
• As part of her grieving process, Meola finally starts to make sense of it all with this bittersweet yet hopeful ballad.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
• The native species American bittersweet is also a thug.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• The high school nostalgia of it all is cross-generational, timeless and bittersweet.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 24 May 2021

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bittersweet

2 of 2 adjective

• Saved Stories This week was a bittersweet one at the zoo.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2023
• The area has changed, and so have I. My memories of that time and place are bittersweet.
  — Meta Valentic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• There’s a bittersweet edge to the song for what has been a bittersweet year for S Club 7.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• For the Ukrainian staff on-site in Virginia, the launch was a bittersweet moment.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023
• Coach, after such a tough loss, bittersweet way to end the season.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 18 Mar. 2023
• For some of those who had known him the longest, the convictions were bittersweet.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
• Wong, one of the many survivors in attendance, felt the night was bittersweet.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• But the mood is bittersweet on this bright winter day in central Phoenix.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• The reunion is short-lived, a quick and bittersweet hit of nostalgia.
  — A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• Use mini pumpkins and bittersweet sprigs to fill the top tier and the spaces between.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 July 2023
• While there is plenty of lacrosse left to be played this spring, Jay expects the ending to be bittersweet.
  — Zachary Lyons, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• The last few weeks of August and the first of September are often bittersweet.
  — cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• For Ukraine and its supporters, the strike was bittersweet.
  — Mathias Hammer, Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• But that was the evening’s only bittersweet moment: The rest, as always, was about the joyful release of rock and roll.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 May 2023
• Use mini pumpkins and bittersweet to fill the top tier and the spaces between the colanders.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 21 June 2023
• While this may be a bittersweet day for the fandom, the Miyagiverse has never been stronger.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, crypto’s collapse might turn out to be bittersweet news in the long run.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Light and medium roasts are milder, while medium dark roasts are stronger and bittersweet.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 29 Oct. 2023
• As the crowd clapped, emotions were bittersweet to the family tending to this open wound.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
• Goodbyes are bittersweet, but the Guardians of the Galaxy have arrived at the end of their ever-winding road both on- and off-screen.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2022
• There was a bittersweet feeling in the air when Shayne Gostisbehere spoke.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• And reveal all the bittersweet epiphanies that come with big-time success.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• There was, though, a bittersweet tinge to the jubilation.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• The news is bittersweet for fans of the show, which is based on the best-selling book series by Caroline Kepnes.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2023
• No major league team has called four cities home, but the A’s are about to write a new and bittersweet page in baseball’s history book.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The end of the summer is always bittersweet, but there’s one major perk to look forward to each year: end-of-season sales.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• In the studio, someone remarked that our last few episodes would be bittersweet.
  — Raul A. Reyes, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• But Kennedy said the end of her high school volleyball career was bittersweet.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• But the loss of Jolicoeur has made this moment of success bittersweet for the other members.
  — Matthew Rehbein, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• The bittersweet part was that hip-hop demanded time away from my baby.
  — Bonsu Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024