Use fruit in a sentence
Sentences starting with fruit
- Fruit cannot be raised on this earth to taste as you imagine those pears would taste. [4]
- Fruit and fragrant oil could be had here at any hour of the night. [10]
Sentences ending with fruit
- All respect to your Boy Eating Figs, in whose presence you would feel the pleasure he himself enjoyed while consuming the sweet fruit. [10]
- Soon my letters yielded fruit. [5]
- The orange-trees cannot well be fuller: their branches bend with the weight of fruit. [4]
- So the tablet told them nothing; and as, moreover, they distinguished less carefully between mine and thine, one trampled the turf and another snatched from the boughs a flower or fruit. [10]
- So I had to keep still several hours day after day, though I confess, to my shame, that I remember nothing about the sittings except having eaten some particularly good candied fruit. [10]
- Then he took to humming a ditty the Jersey housewife used to sing as she spun, while Guida disposed of the sweet-smelling fruit. [11]
- After passing the time of day, as was his custom, the patient freely discussed the motives which had led him to refuse any more of Victoria's fruit. [9]
- Some come into their perfect condition late, like the autumn kinds, and they last better than the summer fruit. [6]
- We will shake the tree for you, if you will only hold out your hand to-morrow to pick up the fruit. [10]
- We noted at the tables in this region a singular use of the word fruit. [4]
Short sentences using fruit
- Coffee and fruit served. [5]
- What a splendid fruit! [10]
- It was a fruit piece. [10]
Sentences containing fruit two or more times
- In the late summer months the fruit on one bough will ripen; I remember just such a tree, and the early ripening fruit was the Jargonelle. [6]
- The mechanical, vegetable, and fruit exhibition was in the great glass palace, in the city, and was very creditable in the fruit department, in the show of grapes and pears especially. [4]
- The fruit of all wholesome strife must be peace; let us pluck that fruit, Gorgo, and enjoy it together. [10]
More example sentences with the word fruit in them
- He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
- He said he would give us any kind of fruit we liked, whether it was in season or not. [5]
- Slender date-palms covered with golden fruit were scattered in every direction over the fields, which were thoroughly irrigated by means of canals and ditches. [10]
- Bascom smuggled a wink to me, and proffered a slice of the fruit to puss. [5]
- And the woman who sat opposite him seemed, like one of her own nectarines, to be the fruit that crowned it all. [9]
- The trees from which the fine fruit I have spoken of, came, had been planted and replanted sixteen times, and to this treatment the proprietor of the orchard attributed his-success. [5]
- In the autumn, when the fruit was ripening, she left the gate open, though all her neighbours did the opposite. [10]
- It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
- In his off-hand way he was getting out some flour, dried fruit and preserves for the cook, who stood near as he loaded up her arms. [11]
- His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not ignorance. [5]
- The front door was open, and a nice savour of boiling fruit came from within. [11]
- Behind the houses was often a kind of pink-and-cream paradise of flowering fruit trees, so dear to the French settlers. [9]
- The fruit market was full of busy life. [10]
- The rosy-cheeked fruit was admired by every one. [10]
- More significant, more vital elements of the truth are the rewards of a mind which searches and craves, especially in these days when the fruit of so many able minds lies on the shelves of library and bookshop. [9]
- It is the very bower of young love, and must have done more than any growth of the forest to soften the doom brought upon man by the fruit of the forbidden tree. [6]
- When fruit and vegetables were sent to us, a "chit" came with them--a receipt for us to sign; otherwise the things might not arrive. [5]
- One of the vagabonds had certainly slipped into the garden to steal fruit or vegetables, or even honey from the bee hives. [10]
- They could close up every entrance, and live unscathed; for here was land for tilling, and wood, and wild fruit, and food for cattle. [11]
- The wild vine twined boldly up many a trunk, fruit was already forming on the bilberry bushes, though it still glimmered with a faint pink hue amid the green of May. [10]
- Lise was a truer daughter of her time and country in that she had the national contempt for law, was imbued with the American hero-worship of criminals that caused the bombardment of Cora Wellman's jail with candy, fruit and flowers and impassioned letters. [9]
- The fruit of trees is a gift from Nature, and all that she brings forth has some good in it; but what you offer to the world is hollow and poisonous. [10]
- To climb a tree and shake it, to club it, to strip it of its fruit, and pass to the next, is the sport of a brief time. [4]
- You show it to your friends, reading to them the French name, which you can never remember, on the label; and you take an honest pride in the successful fruit of long care. [4]
- Did he dare to turn and open those books which she had inspired,--the new philosophies, the historical criticisms which he had neglected and condemned, which he had flattered himself he could do without,--and read of the fruit of Knowledge? [9]
- Now I venture to say that any painter or sculptor of real genius, though he may do nothing more than paint flowers and fruit, or carve cameos, is considered a privileged person. [6]
- And what was to restrain him from reaching out his hand to pluck the fruit which he desired? [9]
- I had begun to nurse a good deal of pride in presiding over a table whereon was the fruit of my honest industry. [4]
- Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness. [10]
- I wish rather to have you notice the gulf that exists between what the majority want to know and that fine fruit of knowledge concerning which there is so widespread an infidelity. [4]
- It is not to give the possessor vegetables or fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy and the higher virtues, hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation and sometimes to alienation. [4]
- Not futile was thy toil, if thou canst see That for thy sons fruit from one seed appears. [10]
- I have seen those, said the Mistress, who seem to prefer dried fruit to fresh; but I like the strawberry and the peach of each season, and for me the last is always the best. [4]
- But instead of those you have offered them sour, unripe fruit, with a glittering rind-from your own garden, of your own growing. [10]
- Not one of those events had gone for nothing; each was bearing fruit after its kind. [11]
- Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
- When they love they are not tasting a forbidden fruit, but are binding themselves for their whole life. [4]
- The young priest there, who seems so fond of gardening, has other fruit in his mind besides the half-ripe figs that he is so slowly dropping into his basket. [10]
- Charmian timidly lifted the upper layer of the fruit, but the Queen said mournfully: "The wife of Antony dragged through the streets of Rome behind the victor's chariot, a spectacle for the populace and envious matrons! [10]
- When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
- By the fruit the tree is to be known. [7]
- Friday She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. [5]
- Who can forget the smell that comes through the opened door;--a mingling of fresh earth, fruit exhaling delicious aroma, kitchen vegetables, the mouldy odor of barrels, a sort of ancestral air,--as if a door had been opened into an old romance. [4]
- Below me, on the slope, the spaced orange trees were heavy with golden fruit. [9]
- In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable. [2]
- Every guest at the 'Olympian table' was allowed here to select the meat, fruit, asparagus, fish, or pasty which he desired to have cooked for him. [10]
- Peachtrees, which, on the northern side of the mountain, hardly ever came to fruit, ripened abundant crops in Rockland. [6]
- These water-works, of the most ingenious construction, many of them invented and contrived by scientific engineers, were the weapons with which man had conquered the desert that originally surrounded this lake, forcing it into green fertility and productiveness of grain and fruit. [10]
- The next year, the little tree blossoms full, and sets well; and in the autumn has on its slender, drooping limbs half a bushel of fruit, daily growing more delicious in the sun. [4]
- He had shown the latter that Antony, in any case, was a lost man, and Egypt was in the act of dropping like a ripe fruit into the lap of Octavianus. [10]
- The tree of the knowledge of good and evil had shaken its fruit into her lap, and, without any serpent to tempt her, she took thereof and did eat. [6]
- I got all the information out of these gentlemen that we could need; and then, to make everything complete, I asked them if a body could get hold of a little fruit and milk here and there, in case of necessity. [5]
- I hold up the fruit, and tender the money. [4]
- In offering you the fruit of my garden, which has been gathered from week to week, without much reference to the progress of the crops or the drought, I desire to acknowledge an influence which has lent half the charm to my labor. [4]
- Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. [7]
- All this was the fruit of Anisya Fedorovna's housekeeping, gathered and prepared by her. [2]
- When he reached the fruit market he noticed that people gazed at him in surprise. [10]
- But to pluck the flowers and fruit which the Lord caused to grow and ripen for every one was a different thing, and had never troubled her conscience. [10]
- It feeds on the fallen fruit of this tree by tearing off the husk, fibre by fibre; and it always begins at that end where the three eye-like depressions are situated. [1]
- I will, by the face of the Madonna, I will feed where this Moray would pasture, I will gather this ripe fruit! [11]
- The high-road followed the course of the Euphrates, passing through luxuriant fields of wheat, barley and sesame yielding fruit two, and sometimes even three, hundred-fold. [10]
- Having gone round the corner of the hothouse to the ornamental garden, he saw that the carved garden fence was broken and branches of the plum trees had been torn off with the fruit. [2]
- They are like the beautiful, blushing, half-grown fruit that falls before its time because its core is gnawed out. [6]
- During its course the apples and pears were gathered, and an old privilege allowed the pupils "to glean"--that is, to claim the fruit left on the trees. [10]
- The truth is, that the public morality is lax on the subject of fruit. [4]
- You will see that the acquaintanceship bore fruit for Hunt. [5]
- The first juice that runs of itself from the grapes comes from the heart of the fruit, and tastes of the pulp only; when the grapes are squeezed in the press the flow betrays the flavor of the skin. [6]
- If Philotas imagined that he could pluck the daughter of Archias like a ripe fruit from a tree, he would find himself mistaken. [10]
- Nevertheless, the hint that Harry had dropped fell upon good ground, and bore fruit an hundred fold; it worked in her mind until she had built up a plan on it, and almost a career for herself. [5]
- What Joan did that day bore fruit the very day after. [5]
- Yet since you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear no fruit. [2]
- Ye that have tasted that divinest fruit, Look on this world of yours with opened eyes! [6]
- I propose to take some of the fruit he is sorting. [4]
- It does not take a great man to soon discover that, in raising anything, the greater part of the plants goes into stalk and leaf, and the fruit is a most inconsiderable portion. [4]
- The buds were swelling on the tall trees, shrubs without end were covered with blossoms--white, blue, yellow, and red--while, among the smooth, shining leaves of the orange and lemon trees, gleamed the swelling fruit. [10]
- He had half succumbed to the danger of losing, by a moment's weakness, the fruit of great sacrifices and severe exertions. [10]
- Would it be strange that Foorgat, who ever flew at fruit above his head, perilous to get or keep, should be found on forbidden ground, or in design upon it? [11]
- Behind the court-yard stood the stately, gable-roofed building containing the guest-rooms, and between it and the church lay the school-garden, a meadow planted with fruit trees, separated from the highway by a wall. [10]
- Why should he stand in an orchard of ripe fruit, and refuse to pick what lay luscious to his hand, what this stupid mealman below would pick, and eat, and yawn over? [11]
- At last he spoke aloud: "There shall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth. [11]
- It should be sown in the earth, to sprout and bear fruit! [10]
- For the seed, sowed in wisdom and self-denial, was bearing fruit. [9]
- As I stand, sorting over the fruit, trying to please myself with size, color, and texture, a little crowd has gathered round; and I see, by a glance, that all the occupations in that neighborhood, including loafing, are temporarily suspended to witness the trade. [4]
- I am having some fruit packed for my father and brothers; there must be a box for Mena too. [10]
- Or we might, so it would seem, have had rooms by the winter garden, where tropical plants rejoice in perennial summer, and blossom and bear fruit, while a northern winter rages without. [4]
- Slender dragon-flies and smaller busy insects flitted buzzing from flower to flower, sucking honey from the brimming calyxes and bearing to others the seeds needed to form fruit. [10]
- My gardener again shrugs his shoulders, with a slight smile, as much as to say, It could not be otherwise, and is evidently delighted to have me enjoy his fruit. [4]
- A courtier once showed the king a pomegranate, and asked him of what one gift of fortune he would like so many repetitions, as there were seeds in that fruit. [10]
- The high walls show that the gardens are protected with great care; yet the fruit seems to be as free as apples are in a remote New England town about cider-time. [4]
- Usually, the more show of leaf and wood, the less fruit. [4]
- The uttermost that she longed for, as the fruit of the seed she had sown and which she longed to see ripen, had not yet come to pass--and to see that she would endure anything, even death and parting from this deceitful, burning, unlovely world. [10]
- I'm going to send you a United States government pamphlet on the fruit we can raise here. [9]
- The visit of Senator Dilworthy had become of more importance to her, and it by and by bore the fruit she longed for, in an invitation to visit his family in the National Capital during the winter session of Congress. [5]
- There you shall see waxlights on the table, and finger-glasses with green leaves, and fine linen and napkins, and plenty of silver--even silver wine-coolers, and beakers of fame and beauty, and flowers, flowers everywhere, and fruit of exquisite charm. [11]
- Visitors came to see her, and gifts of fruit and flowers were sent, which brought some cheer into her hard and gloomy cell. [5]
- Hoping you will see a change for the better and begin to reap the fruit of your long and hard labor. [5]
- I hate to see a bulldog in a fruit orchard. [4]
- Her secret, if secret she has, which I do not at all know, is shared by the birds and the new leaves and the blossoms on the fruit trees. [4]
- This is a scathing rebuke to old dead Froissart's poor witticism that our family tree never had but one limb to it, and that that one stuck out at right angles, and bore fruit winter, and summer. [5]
- This is a scathing rebuke to old dead Froissart's poor witticism that our family tree never had but one limb to it, and that that one stuck out at right angles, and bore fruit winter and summer. [5]
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