raspberry

Example Sentences

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Bright yellow T-shirts reading, in raspberry type, “¡Bienvenido Gustavo!” marked Gustavo Dudamel’s first concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic the first Saturday afternoon of October 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

We don’t have raspberry receptors on the tongue, nor is raspberry flavor some combination of sweet, sour and bitter.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2026

My two sons pulled matching faces of disgust when I offered them Scandinavian salty black licorice with raspberry I’d purchased on a whim in Norway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Jelly bean flavors include green apple, blue raspberry, lemon, tangerine, and cranberry — “which each deliver just enough fruity sweetness to accentuate their accompanying jolt of sour,” per TJ’s.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025

He blew another raspberry and Ivy yelped again, laughing so hard, her stomach hurt.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake