sherry
IPA: ʃˈɛri
noun
- (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
- A variety of sherry.
- A glass of sherry.
- A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
- A surname.
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Examples of "sherry" in Sentences
- The seaman Sherry is out of danger.
- The Bristol Cream is the only sherry .
- Crash tinkle tinkle no sherry for Betsy.
- An example by way of contrast would be sherry.
- It also exports sherry as well as alimentary products.
- The sea air leads the Sherry to develop a salty taste.
- An agreement on the terms sherry and porto, drinks from Spain and
- Sherry rather than Sherry as a spirit, but it's entirely up to you.
- Onion, sherry, mustard and dill are some of the traditional flavourings.
- Sherry Ayitey had been a member of the Divestiture Implemantation Committee.
- Ted and Mrs Doyle then cajole Henry into taking a drink of sherry before bed.
- Madrid maintains that the term sherry can only be applied to wine made in the region of Jerez in southern Spain.
- The accord snagged on the names of fortified wines, with Spain and Portugal insisting South Africa stop using the terms sherry and port for its wines.
- You persuaded me to give up that silly drink they call sherry, and drink ale; and what was it but drinking ale which gave me courage to knock down that fellow
- But they're also keen on lesser-known wine-producing areas, like Canada's Niagara region, which touts scenic wonders and ice wine, to boot, and European centers that specialize in sherry and port.
- The term sherry is derived from the name of the town where it is made: Jerez de la Frontera, which, along with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Puerto de Santa María, forms a triangle in southwestern Spain.
- He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.