Example sentences for: apples

How can you use “apples” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sure, there are a few bad apples in every crate, and a few legitimate deep thinkers who sometimes get carried away.

  • Shepherds watch their somnolent flocks; farmers hand weed their vegetable patches; laden donkeys make their way relentlessly towards home; at harvest time the smell of ripe grapes and apples fills the air — this is Lasíthi.

  • It has always, since long before my time, been the custome for only the first part of a compound to be used, such as my old china (=china plate=mate) or up the apples (= apples and pears = stairs ), and it is generally believed that this practice first began among the semi-criminal classes to render their speech less easily comprehensible to outsiders.

  • Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.

  • He was hopinga small leaf would stick to the window, somethingred, with a pear to match, a Bartlett; pearsand apples made him sleep.


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