Example sentences for: pears

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

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

  • The Sierra de Alhamilla is a desert of barren mountains, rocky ravines, and dry gravel riverbeds; spiky agave plants and prickly pears are the only vegetation.

  • Later: Tony Blair eats Comice pears with aged Gruyère-- c'est savoir faire .

  • 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.


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