Example sentences for: blueberry

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

  • Dwelly says, “See fraochan,” But fraochan can be blueberry or, cranberry,' or a fit of passion,' or part of a deer,' or the `extra toe-cap of a shoe,' This suggests the real translation is `a tapered little piece of (leather to prevent wear of the shoe by the) heather.

  • fraoch-mara seaweed `heather of the sea' fraochan bilberry, blueberry, or whortleberry fraochag cranberry, but also bilberry, etc. dearcan-fraoich blueberry `berry of the heather'

  • They want to sit on the porch of the local country store and drink coffee and eat blueberry muffins.

  • This isn't because people are persuaded to switch, but because someone who has already eaten a blueberry bagel is more likely to eat a strawberry bagel than the average person is to eat a fruit bagel of any sort.

  • In the Gaelic parts of Scotland and Ireland, the word for heather was fraoch , pronounced nearly like German fröch . There are many regional differences in Gaelic, and fraoch can be pronounced “FREWX” or “FRAWX” in some parts of Gaeldom, perhaps explaining some of the spellings that have come into English for health-related words like frawlin or fraughan for blueberry, and freuchan for the “reinforcing toe cap of a brogue” (shoe, not accent) to prevent excessive wear by the heather.


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