Example sentences for: pears

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

  • 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.

  • Across the lake at Westbank, among other orchard towns, you pay for what you pick: apricots, peaches, cherries, plums, pears, and apples.

  • Book -- An Instance of the Fingerpost , by Iain Pears;

  • The coast road east passes the town of Guatiza, where prickly pears abound and where cochineal beetles are still cultivated (see page 19).


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