fruit

Example Sentences

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From his fruit shop in Blaenau Gwent, greengrocer Stuart Lewis watches children walk past every morning, buying fast food on their way to school.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

When Mr. Haskell turns his lens on seagrass flowers, we glimpse organisms marvelously adapted to their watery environment, petals miniaturized into “scalelike shields,” with fruit and seeds protected as if in a bathyscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

On a Wednesday in February in the Coachella Valley, more than two dozen farmworkers weaved up and down rows of strawberries, their gloved hands flicking quickly to pluck the fruit and stash it in boxes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

I’ve done it with apples — layering applesauce, apple butter and roasted fruit into a cake that tastes like fall — and with egg salad, where richness builds from every direction.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

“So you’re saying I just have to climb the trees and shake the fruit so it falls down, and then bring it to you?”

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm