eating the apple

Example Sentences

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The painting of Snow White, when she’s upside down after eating the apple, was a very hard position.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2018

All the time that Jimbo was eating the apple, I kept talking to him.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

If we explain the fall of man by Adam's eating the apple, we are quite unable to say why the apple should have been created.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Next he addressed himself to the business of eating the apple.

From The Circus Comes to Town by Chase, Rhoda

I think that Adam's great mistake was not so much in eating the apple as in trying to lay the blame on the woman.

From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)