RAISIN in a Sentence

Learn RAISIN 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.

Example sentences for RAISIN, such as:

1. A small, seedless raisin of the Mediterranean region, used chiefly in baking.
2. Two governesses were sitting with the Vogels at a table, on which were plates of raisins, walnuts, and almonds.
3. It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.
4. and Petya ran out into the passage to his Cossack and brought back some bags which contained about five pounds of raisins.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAISIN
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raisin
 n.  grape, or a bunch of grapes; grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat
Classic Sentence:
1  She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies on a newspaper spread on the rack in the oven.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Two governesses were sitting with the Vogels at a table, on which were plates of raisins, walnuts, and almonds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
3  I have some raisins, fine ones; you know, seedless ones.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
4  and Petya ran out into the passage to his Cossack and brought back some bags which contained about five pounds of raisins.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
5  It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
6  The raisins and almonds and figs and apples and oranges and chocolates and sweets were now passed about the table and Aunt Julia invited all the guests to have either port or sherry.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  A small, seedless raisin of the Mediterranean region, used chiefly in baking.