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How to use banana in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Banana means an elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. Example: “Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.”

Examples of banana by meaning

nounAn elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

  • Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.
  • I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62

nounThe penis.

  • The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one1986, Christopher Street, Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates", volume 10
  • His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.2012, Sarah Miynowski, Fishbowl, page 36
  • One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.2014, Anthony Bunko, Lord Forgive Me, page 71

adjectiveCurved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

  • Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155
  • He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53

More sentences with banana

  • The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.From the entry tree
  • You looked a fool when you slipped on a banana peel.From the entry look
  • I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.From the entry peel
  • They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!From the entry nuts
  • Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.From the entry mishap
  • Only the top banana can make a decision of that magnitude.From the entry top banana
  • He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years.From the entry top banana
  • They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.From the entry splurge
  • He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter.From the entry second banana
  • The plumber left his second banana behind, to finish installing my new sink.From the entry second banana
  • Get that banana peel out of your mouth this instant! You don't know where it's been!From the entry you don't know where it's been
  • It was classic—the way she slipped on a banana peel while she was telling us all to be careful!From the entry classic
  • There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.From the entry woolly
  • The ducts in a banana stem are trabeculate.From the entry trabeculate
  • The pseudostem of the banana can be several metres tall.From the entry pseudostem
  • The subject is becoming a political banana skin.From the entry banana skin
  • The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and include all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc.From the entry endogen
  • Now, eat your banana, little monkey." She nodded at Annabelle's hand.2024, Robin W. Pearson, chapter 1, in Kathryn S. Olson, editor, Dysfunction Junction […], Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers…. From the entry oo oo aa aa
  • A type of sea cucumber, this gummy squirrel looks frighteningly similar to a banana.2022 August 2, Jennifer Nalewicki, “'Gummy squirrel' found in deep-sea abyss looks like a stretchy half-peeled banana”, in Live Science…. From the entry gummy squirrel
  • If baking banana bread and whipping up dalgonas worked for someone—great!2020 June 15, Somak Ghoshal, “Sex, lies and job loss: Shobhaa De on her weekly lockdown stories”, in Mint Lounge, archived from the…. From the entry dalgona
  • Took a screamer first quarter, then left foot banana through the hey diddle diddle.2018 November 22, Thomas Faunce, Split By Sun: The Tragic History Of The Sustainocene, World Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, page 315. From the entry hey diddle diddle
  • “It was banana bread and it had chocolate chips in it.2017, Melissa Marino, So Wicked, Forever Yours, →ISBN. From the entry French toasty
  • The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed.2015, Linda Bladholm, Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified, page 343. From the entry duckanoo
  • She made manioc pie, got water, got wild banana leaves and pounded manioc.2013, Elizabeth Ewart, Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography, Bloomsbury, page 174. From the entry manioc
  • Might it be awesome to see my classmates' expressions as I strut out sporting a banana hammock?2010, Josh Berk, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Knopf, published 2010, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banana hammock
  • Then, she tore a piece of her banana leaf, and used that to scoop up the payasam.2010, Susan Visvanathan, The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi. From the entry payasam
  • I only buy one yellow banana, for I may not be around tomorrow.2010, Norman Molesko, Retiring and Senior Living...Experiencing the Second Half of Life. From the entry don't buy green bananas
  • Be sure to put the peel in the trash can.” “A real banana?2008, Hanson Bonnie Compton, Songs for a Mockingbird, Starik Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry peely
  • Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force.2007 March 5, Kresley Cole, The Price of Pleasure, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry pule
  • “I had to convince her that eating a banana was not a bad thing,” Boone said.2007 February 25, Brenda McHugh, “Five favorite foods — Are they healthy or harmful?”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 72, number 10, page 4. From the entry bananaphobia
  • “You know,” I say, “she has that prommy dress, and the tiara and those banana curls.2007, Hank Phillippi Ryan, chapter 6, in Face Time (Charlotte McNally; 2), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Next, →ISBN, pages 70–71. From the entry prommy
  • Banana pudding was another Elvis favorite, which he called ’naner pudding.2005, Jane Stern, Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food. From the entry 'naner
  • I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36. From the entry banana ketchup

Meaning of banana

  1. noun An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
  2. noun In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
  3. noun The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.

Full definition of banana

Questions about banana in a sentence

How do you use banana in a sentence?
Banana is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.”
What is a short sentence with banana?
“Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.”
What does banana mean?
Banana means an elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: banana (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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