BERRY in a Sentence

Learn BERRY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for BERRY, such as:

1. These shrubs produce bright red berries.
2. I berry much spect Missis be anxious 'bout Jerry.'
3. We have enough berries now, I think, and we had better take them home.
4. All I could get to eat was berries and what was left over from breakfast.
5. I turned back the papery triangular sheaths that protected the berries and ate a few.

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 Meanings and Examples of BERRY
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berry
 v.  pick or gather berries
 n.  any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  "Go to bed berry soon," he mumbled, half-turning as he spoke.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
2  I berry much spect Missis be anxious 'bout Jerry.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  The chirp came from a thick holly bush, bright with scarlet berries, and Mary thought she knew whose it was.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  All I could get to eat was berries and what was left over from breakfast.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
5  And when they reached the bush with the red berries, they found the Reindeer waiting for them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
6  Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
7  They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
8  This roused me from my nearly dormant state, and I ate some berries which I found hanging on the trees or lying on the ground.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path, and I again went out in search of berries.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
13  We have enough berries now, I think, and we had better take them home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
14  Thomasin came out of the tree, shook from her hair and dress the loose berries which had fallen thereon, and went down the hill with her aunt, each woman bearing half the gathered boughs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
15  I turned back the papery triangular sheaths that protected the berries and ate a few.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
Example Sentence:
1  These shrubs produce bright red berries.