fig

Example Sentences

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Enter Digby, a handsome, quick-witted and wealthy enigma who smells faintly of fig.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“This is just a fig leaf to deflect from criticism,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on X External link in response to Kalshi’s new measures.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Classic examples include figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

Outside, she grew bell peppers and squash and tended to the avocado and fig trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

If Washington’s retirement hymn featured the “vine and fig tree,” Jefferson’s idolized “my family, my farm, and my books.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis