STRAWBERRY in a Sentence

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For STRAWBERRY, below is one of 19 sentences:
Ah, those gentlemen never choose the worst morsels; like Mere Simon's son, who has not chosen the worst strawberries.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRAWBERRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strawberry
 n.  a sweet soft red fruit with a seed-studded surface
Classic Sentence:
1  All shades of red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty's plain red hair, Camilla's strawberry blonde, Randa's coppery auburn and small Betsy's carrot top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  He had a ship and a strawberry girl on one arm, and on the other a girl standing before a little house, with a fence and gate and all, waiting for her sweetheart.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  I found plenty strawberries, ripe and prime; and green summer grapes, and green razberries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
4  I shall come back to dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee, and cigars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  He had twelve leaves and about as many strawberries, which, on rising suddenly, he let fall from his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
6  But I am not surprised; the spring has been warm this year, and strawberries require heat, sir.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
7  Ah, those gentlemen never choose the worst morsels; like Mere Simon's son, who has not chosen the worst strawberries.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
8  For treat they had wild plums and crab-apples and tiny wild strawberries.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
10  In front it had a neat garden-patch, where, every summer, strawberries, raspberries, and a variety of fruits and vegetables, flourished under careful tending.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXI
13  She would make me eat her strawberries.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
Example Sentence:
1  He sent his driver to fetch him a strawberry shake.
2  I'd like a cheeseburger and strawberry milk shake to go, please.
3  The ersatz strawberry shortcake tasted more like plastic than real cake.
4  That was very extravagant of you to buy strawberries out of season.
5  The strawberries are kept in cold storage to prevent them spoiling during transportation.
6  The collar was embroidered with very small red strawberries.