ORANGE in a Sentence

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For ORANGE, below is one of 87 sentences:
It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORANGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
orange
 n.  round citrus fruit, color between red and yellow
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  The maples were orange; the oaks a solid tint of raspberry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She encountered negro shanties turned into studios, with orange curtains and pots of mignonette; marble houses on New Hampshire Avenue, with butlers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
5  In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
6  My man worked in the orange groves in Florida, and he knows all about grafting.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
7  Further away still, vegetable gardens abounded, with frequent small plantations of orange or lemon trees intervening.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Some one had gathered orange and lemon branches, and with these fashioned graceful festoons between.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low-hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
10  An illumination broke over his whole face when he saw her and joined her under the orange tree.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
11  They waited a good while under the orange trees, till Madame Antoine came back, panting, waddling, with a thousand apologies to explain her absence.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
12  It was very pleasant to stay there under the orange trees, while the sun dipped lower and lower, turning the western sky to flaming copper and gold.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
13  There was a garden out in the suburbs; a small, leafy corner, with a few green tables under the orange trees.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
14  It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  A dark battle line lay upon a sunstruck clearing that gleamed orange color.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Add orange paint to get a warmer hue.
2  The adult can be readily distinguished by its orange bill.
3  If the orange is going to be bad ----for the best of us are bad sometimes ---it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside.
4  It is a seedless type orange.
5  There were four of us, so we divided the orange into quarters and each ate a piece.
6  He collected some orange juice from the refrigerator and, glass in hand, strolled to the kitchen window.
7  Fresh orange juice should be refrigerated after opening and drunk within three days.
8  The black lettering really stands out on that orange background.
9  She wanted to buy the orange dress,but we persuaded her that the blue one was more becoming.
10  The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.
11  He cut the orange into quarters.
12  Cut the orange peel into fine shreds.
13  He was also carrying an orange poster on a pole, urging a vote for the local Liberal Democrat candidate.
14  The orange skin squirted in my eye.
15  The outside of an orange is bitter, but the inside is sweet.