adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a refreshing drink (= making you feel less tired or hot )
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Enjoy a refreshing drink in our lakeside café.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
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A refreshing change from her usual, inexperienced escorts.
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The Rubber Bishops meanwhile provided a refreshing change .
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I find it a refreshing change .
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Despite worries to the contrary, pressed flowers photograph well and make a refreshing change from more conventional forms of artwork.
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So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice.
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It certainly makes a refreshing change from reams of text menus.
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The training centre staff complimented Rentokil on being a refreshing change from the usual delegates that attend the centre!
drink
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After council meetings they adjourned to a local pub for a refreshing drink paid for out of their own pockets.
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From a very early age - in fact, right from the early weeks - babies enjoy a refreshing drink .
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They make a soothing refreshing drink for baby.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lemon sorbet makes a refreshing treat on a hot night.
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The ocean breeze was refreshing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Flesh varies from green to orange and is juicy and refreshing .
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It can be used as an exciting and refreshing supplement to any primary course.
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It was refreshing to hear publishers and booksellers risking offending each other.
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It was refreshing to see how much importance is now being given to producing both valid and acceptable analytical results.
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The balance of their music is not as idiosyncratically staggering as Joy Division, but can be as refreshing .
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Though he was shuddering, he felt cleansed; the rain was almost refreshing .
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Yet when the band first appeared, they were quite refreshing .