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berry

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


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The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Even as cases of cyclosporiasis rise in the U.S., you don’t have to avoid berry breakfasts and Caesar salads.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Those include rival Rogue’s mango-flavored pouches and Velo’s wild berry and dragon fruit flavors.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Participants drank a banana based smoothie, a mixed berry smoothie, and a flavanol capsule used as a control.

From Science Daily May 24, 2026

We carried the tub out and emptied it under a china- berry tree in the side yard.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

The other half of America’s blueberries are grown domestically, a good portion of them in Maine, the top producer of wild berries in the country.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

Fresh and elegant, with serious tannins, aromas of violets and roses and flavors including pomegranate and big, ripe red berries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

I always get berries at the market, too, like raspberries and blueberries.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Some batches are heavy on berries, some heavy on melon, but no two are the same.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Maybe because of the way they taste the berries are rarely eaten by game early in the fall when they come ripe.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.

From Washington Post Dec. 25, 2022

In fall, masses of winter pansies, ornamental kale and berried shrubs replace tender plantings in the massive window box and containers, while the trim boxwood hedges and clipped hollies carry the show throughout winter.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2021

De ole Daltons wuz berried on de Ole Jimmy Scales plantation.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various

The berried holly is now in great demand all along the Pacific shores, and American purchasers are eager to buy it.

From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joe and Marly did so much berrying, what with strawberries and then red raspberries and then blackberries, that Joe said he was absolutely berried-out.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

I’m beginning to think she’s gone fishing or berrying and will not return until dusk.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Of course, I’m not going to follow her, although it would be easier than playing On the Track, the game we made up when went berrying or food gathering.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The array of tin pails with the berrying party suggested the probability that the occupants of Dolittle Cottage would eat nothing but raspberries for a week.

From Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted by Harriet L.




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