tangerine

Example Sentences

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The elevated snack tray comes with crudités alongside a pesto yogurt sauce, a tuna tostada, a carpaccio hand roll, shrimp toast and a refreshing, fruity and herbaceous granita that comes in a hollowed-out tangerine rind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

If their thoughts do turn to cricket, uppermost in England minds should be the problem of Bumrah, whose staccato action and educated fingers could probably swing a tangerine around corners.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024

For reference, I generally use the majority of zest scraped from one whole satsuma, which is about the size of a tangerine.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

“The rest of the tangerine is sour, I shouldn’t eat it,” he said, and I stared at him, the words going slowly to my head, then looked down at the fruit on my plate.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier