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It is most commonly used in sweets, the way refined sugar is used in the West.
She'd binge on ice cream and sweets, then starve herself on a handful of nuts and a granola bar for days; standing 5 foot 7 inches tall, she weighed 100 pounds at her lowest.— PowerPop
For people who love sweets, a meal is not completely satisfying unless it finishes off with a sumptuous dessert.— Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
The eating of sweets, and especially the sticky sweets--preserves and the like--was recognized as an important source of caries.— Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
They need chocolate--sweets are good for them--and 'comfort-kits' of the real sort, not those useless, dowdy ones so many well-intentioned women are wasting time and money to send them; and they'll be grateful for lots and lots of cigarettes, and Oh, Irene!— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

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