fig
Example Sentences
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You’ll never look at fig leaves the same way after reading this hilarious, whipsmart and sometimes painful novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The backyard includes tiger fig trees, apple trees, and other edible plantings surrounding a swimming pool designed for year-round Southern California living.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead, it’s inspired by the famous fig tree metaphor from Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” where each plump and juicy fig, dangling deliciously on the branches, represents a different life path for the protagonist.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Milo was away, too, in Smyrna for the fig harvest.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
