Sample Sentences for
relish
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relish as in:  relished the experience

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    With the children gone, the two men stood studying the lions clustered at a distance, eating with great relish whatever it was they had caught.  (source)
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    Administration wasn't the kind of work he relished.  (source)
    relished = enthusiastically enjoyed
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    Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he'd been.  (source)
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    It was the only sensation of familiarity I'd felt since coming to this place, and I relished it.  (source)
    relished = enthusiastically enjoyed
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    He guzzled his water, relishing the wet coolness as it washed down his dry throat.†  (source)
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    The center of the table was laden with trays and bowls filled with eggs, fish (not from the marshy lake, but from the sea beyond), spiced chicken, bread, braised vegetables, and half a dozen relishes of various types.†  (source)
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    As he glanced timidly up, and met the Jew's searching look, he felt that his pale face and trembling limbs were neither unnoticed nor unrelished by that wary old gentleman.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrelished means not and reverses the meaning of relished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She was too indolent even to accept a mother's gratification in witnessing their success and enjoyment at the expense of any personal trouble, and the charge was made over to her sister, who desired nothing better than a post of such honourable representation, and very thoroughly relished the means it afforded her of mixing in society without having horses to hire.  (source)
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    As evil as any Mask who spends a lifetime relishing the blood and tears of his victims.†  (source)
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    I push her hair back from her head and she closes her eyes like she relishes the feel.†  (source)
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    She thought the mayor was a bum and relished the strike for its opportunity of complaint.†  (source)
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    Daisy shut her eyes and paused, relishing her favorite part.†  (source)
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    Lourdes relishes moments with her daughter Diana.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    "Ooooh, it was dreadful," she said with relish.†  (source)
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    They didn't particularly relish the opportunity of explaining just where the fruit had come from.†  (source)
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    My man and I, we don't relish this work much.†  (source)
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    I stood at a podium in a room filled with people who didn't relish my speaking to them.†  (source)
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    We want to make sure you have a nice, enjoyable hike—relish the joys of nature and all that.†  (source)
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    Your savages might relish a bit of rapine.†  (source)
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    The Martials pull pain from him slowly and with relish.†  (source)
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    I did not relish what it might telleth me about my future.†  (source)
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    With what fervor do they relish bringing their sexual misconduct to light!†  (source)
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    In the icebox he found hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, relish.†  (source)
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    "That's it until I figure how I can do some real damage to you," she said with relish.†  (source)
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    I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.†  (source)
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    Amy would relish the battle—God knew what she already had lined up.†  (source)
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