fig

Example Sentences

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“There! Now I have made you solemn again. I should put a curb on my tongue. Here, take the fig. That should cheer you.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“I don’t have just one fig. I have a whole figment.”

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

“It’s not granola. It’s fig. Do you want me to throw up?”

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Et le guidon des guerres; lettres Gothiques, fig. fol. maroq. rouge, imprim� � Paris, pour Guil.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

"Hello, Bullen! you surely do not intend to traverse the wilderness in full fig.?" cried Sir William, who had come down to speed his guests.

From At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear by Munroe, Kirk