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How to use blackberry in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun, verb

Blackberry means a fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids. Example: “Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.”

Examples of blackberry by meaning

verbTo gather or forage for blackberries.

  • She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
  • My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 111
  • Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us.1988, Arthur Bryson Gerrard, Butterflies & coalsmoke, page 62

More sentences with blackberry

  • Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.From the entry abundant
  • There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.From the entry patch
  • We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.From the entry gather
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:blackberry winter.From the entry blackberry winter
  • Strawberries, blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries and blueberries are on offer as well as Ranui berries and kotataberries.2020 December 12, Sharon Stephenson, “Three of the best 'pick your own' fruit farms”, in Stuff. From the entry kotataberry
  • Erect and semi-erect blackberry cultivars produce fruit with relatively large pyrenes compared to those of trailing blackberries.2017, Bernadine C. Strik, “Growth and Development”, in Harvey K. Hall, Richard C. Funt, editors, Blackberries and Their Hybrids (Crop…. From the entry drupelet
  • Now that you know, you might consider yourself a batologist, one who studies blackberries and other brambles.2013 August 7, Suzan Bellincampi, “Batty Batologist”, in Vineyard Gazette. From the entry batologist
  • Resembling the loganberry of the West, the new fruit is a cross between raspberries and blackberries.1955 April 2, “Fruit for Northeast Resembles Loganberry”, in Science News Letter, volume 67, number 14, Washington, D.C.: Science Service…. From the entry nessberry
  • Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187. From the entry rap
  • Laden, as we were, with baskets, boots, crooked walking sticks, gloves and Elastoplasts, we were off blackberry picking.2023 September 30, John Wright, “I travel across Britain foraging wild food. Here’s what to look for, and where”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry elastoplast
  • She scrambled to her feet and, trying not to step on them, gathered all the unsquished blackberries back in the pail.2021, Natasha Lowe, The Daring of Della Dupree, page 47. From the entry unsquished
  • Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis), also known as Chilean blackberry, is an edible berry that grows wild in central and southern Chile.2013, Diana E. Roopchand, Leonel E. Rojo, David Ribnicky, Ilya Raskin, “7: Anthocyanins and Metabolic Syndrome”, in Taylor C. Wallace, M.…. From the entry maqui
  • BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, will be coming to phones that support Apple’s iOS 6 platform and Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich.2013 May 14, Hayley Tsukayama, “BlackBerry will bring BBM to Apple, Android; introduces cheaper Q5 phone”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry BBM
  • The best thing about Hayling Island (apart from its spanners) was its bounteous bushfuls of blackberries, from which I readily grazed.2011, Josie Dew, Slow Coast Home. From the entry bushful
  • Pure blackberry, cedar and earthy garrigue aromas.2009 August 29, Gord Stimmell, “Off ice, the Great One delivers Niagara terroir”, in Toronto Star. From the entry garrigue
  • By the dinner rest stop, I broke down and spent some cash to order a piece of blackberry pie.2005, Katia Noyes, Crashing America, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry fabulicious
  • Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford. From the entry decoction
  • My governess left me alone for half an hour with strict instructions to eat no blackberries during her absence.1975, Bertrand Russell, chapter 1, in Autobiography. From the entry bramble
  • I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35. From the entry grape
  • Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push. From the entry noxiousness
  • BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins said that the BBM apps for those platforms will come this summer and will be available for free.2013 May 14, Hayley Tsukayama, “BlackBerry will bring BBM to Apple, Android; introduces cheaper Q5 phone”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry BBM
  • Aglianico, the variety emblematic of the region, yields austere, full-bodied reds with intense aromas of blackberries, cherries and raspberries: these wines are eminently cellarable.2013, Wine Trails of Italy: Itineraries through the Vineyards (Michelin Green Guides), Boulogne-Billancourt: Michelin Travel Partner…. From the entry cellarable
  • This is a complex hybrid which came about as a cross between European raspberry (R. idaeus), common blackberry (R. fruticosus), and loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).2012 July 19, “Rubus Diversity and Obscurity…Batology!”, in The Fruit Nut, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2020. From the entry Rudolph
  • At that time there were no built-up areas round Harrow, and during one autumn we gathered enough blackberries for twenty-eight pounds of jam.1948, Brian Lunn, Switchback: An Autobiography, Eyre & Spottiswoode, published 1948, page 20. From the entry blackberrying
  • I enjoyed the blackberrying, but I did not enjoy the walks, which averaged about five miles a day and might be over seven.1948, Brian Lunn, Switchback: An Autobiography, Eyre & Spottiswoode, published 1948, page 20. From the entry blackberrying
  • The semi-trailing thornless blackberries may not qualify for a place in your home garden or landscape if you are unwilling to make a slight compromise on flavor.2020, Robert E Gough, Edward Barclay Poling, Small Fruits in the Home Garden. From the entry semi-trailing
  • It includes biscuits and gravy, blackberry pancakes and eggs-in-the-basket, which features two slices of sourdough bread grilled with an egg in the middle and served with bacon or sausage.2000 April 15, Laura Ustaszewski, “Cracker Barrel aims for April 24 opening”, in The Delaware Gazette, 183rd year, number 5, Delaware…. From the entry egg-in-the-basket
  • The berry is better known as the blackberry and, depending on the variety can have just a single druplet (seed surrounded by black flesh) or up to twenty druplets.1999, Helen J. Read, Mark Frater, “Management and Conservation”, in Woodland Habitats (Habitat Guides), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge…. From the entry druplet
  • An experiment was carried out to investigate whether detached segments of floricanes during winter pruning of erect blackberries could be used as a source of propagating material.1997 July, HortScience, volume 32, number 4, →DOI. From the entry floricane
  • When she returned I was suspiciously near the brambles. ‘You have been eating blackberries’, she said. ‘I have not’, I replied. ‘Put out your tongue!’ she said.1975, Bertrand Russell, chapter 1, in Autobiography. From the entry bramble
  • The fruits of the genus Rubus (blackberry, raspberry) are aggregates of small drupes (drupelets) upon the receptacle of a single flower, each drupelet from a single pistil.1931, A[lbert] S[pear] Hitchcock, “Fruits and Seeds”, in Field Work for the Local Botanist, Washington, D.C.: Published by the author […]…. From the entry drupelet

Meaning of blackberry

  1. noun A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
  2. noun The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
  3. noun Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.

Full definition of blackberry

Questions about blackberry in a sentence

How do you use blackberry in a sentence?
Blackberry is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.”
What is a short sentence with blackberry?
“Pure blackberry, cedar and earthy garrigue aromas.”
What does blackberry mean?
Blackberry means a fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

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