bananas

Example Sentences

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Soon, the price of shipping bananas across the sea from Costa Rica will reset for the new quarter, at which point Barabino will likely need to start passing higher costs through.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

I’ll have a green smoothie with kale, spinach, bananas and blueberries and some collagen powder.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

But some entrepreneurs have also identified business opportunities, including food sellers who offer hungry drivers bread and bananas, or more elaborate meals of spicy biryani rice.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Mattresses were stacked, bunches of green bananas hung from the rafters, the gash where the machete had cut dripped white sticky ooze onto the floor.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago