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How to use cherry in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Cherry means a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem. Example: “The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.”

Examples of cherry by meaning

nounVirginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.

  • Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry.1965 [1955], J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Delacorte Press, page 39
  • Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20

nounA subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

  • The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 22005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press...

nounA red cricket ball.

  • The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.2000, Woorkheri Raman, “Indians adopt safety first tactics”, in ESPNcricinfo, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022, retrieved 25 Nov...
  • Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.2007, Ben Dirs, “England v West Indies 1st Test”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016, retrieved 25 Nov 2024

nounA round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.

  • "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 249
  • “This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry2011, Rick Mofina, In Desperation, Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, →ISBN, page 44

nounThe burning tip of a cigarette.

  • I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 115

adjectiveIn excellent condition; mint condition.

  • A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 108
  • All of my action figures are cherry2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic

More sentences with cherry

  • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.From the entry pie
  • Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.From the entry man
  • Since the machine was showing two lemons and a cherry, I decided to try a nudge.From the entry nudge
  • Net the cherry trees to keep birds out.From the entry net
  • The leaves of apple and cherry trees are pentastichous.From the entry pentastichous
  • The fruits of the pea, cherry, and almond are monocarpellary.From the entry monocarpellary
  • This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.From the entry strictly speaking
  • I baked a delicious cherry pie.From the entry bake
  • The cherry trees are in bloom.From the entry bloom
  • There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.From the entry kernel of truth
  • The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil.2026 August 21, Popkin, “A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 21 Aug 2026. From the entry pomato
  • For dessert, there's cherry Bakewell tart with almond frosting and caramelised pecans.2025 January 14, Hayley Minn, “How to dine like royalty in London... for peanuts! The best luxury set meal deals in the capital (including…. From the entry cherry bakewell tart
  • "I don't need a lighter to hit this; the bowl's cherried."2023 April 22 (last accessed), “Cherried”, in Cannabis Glossary, Leafly. From the entry cherried
  • In the photo she's wearing a green floral headscarf and spooning cherry filling into a pieróg.2022 April 14, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, “At this Ukrainian restaurant, dumplings go by many names, but always taste like home”, in The…. From the entry pieróg
  • Pippin knots, millefruit biscuits, preserved cherries, and apricot tartlets were Kitty’s for the taking.2022, Laura Frantz, A Heart Adrift, Revell, →ISBN. From the entry millefruit
  • Mahlab is a delicious but somewhat obscure spice that comes from the seed of a cherry tree.2015, Lindsay Herman, Herb & Spice Companion: The Complete Guide to Over 100 Herbs & Spices. From the entry mahlab
  • Lucie cherries are harvested for their pits, which are cracked open to reveal small light-brown kernels.2015, Lindsay Herman, Herb & Spice Companion: The Complete Guide to Over 100 Herbs & Spices. From the entry mahlab
  • Varieties include the appletini, hazeltini, cherry martini, Cajun martini, habanero martini, pometini, chocolatini, and even a bacontini!2015 April 30, Edie Hall, Cooking with Oma: A Link with the Past, a Bridge to the Future, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry appletini
  • Lamont jammed the brakes and reached down by the shotgun seat, grabbing a cherry top.2015, James Patterson, Truth or Die, page 170. From the entry cherry top
  • Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363…. From the entry pake
  • The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 22. From the entry maraschino cherry
  • Cherry shocked Fancy by taking her by the shoulders and kissing her cheek.2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry grandcestor
  • But so would you, if you had turbo-charged sprinkles and a woowoo-ing cherry on your head.2011, Steve Cleverley, “Section 11”, in Vincent Bechet, Trevor White, editor, Moshling Collector's Guide, illustrated edition, Scholastic…. From the entry scrumptilicious
  • I placed our properly scored, cloved, overly maraschino cherried and pineappled porker in a slow cooking oven.2010, Susan Kessen, Dear Mom and Dad. From the entry cherried
  • The cops turned on their cherry top lights and were approaching them fast.2010, Kato, Good Guy Gone Bad, page 121. From the entry cherry top
  • American courts sometimes use cherry in place of apple, but the latter fruit vastly predominates.2009, Bryan A. Garner, Garner on Language and Writing, page 525. From the entry set phrase
  • So it's possible to 'cherry pick' only the evidence that supports a position and ignore the rest.2008, Warren Davies, How to Study Psychology, page 80. From the entry cherry-pick
  • You use two nonwinter vegetables that are decent in midwinter: arugula and cherry or grape tomatoes.2007 January 24, Mark Bittman, “Cheesy Pasta, Redressed”, in New York Times. From the entry nonwinter
  • You can fill them with your favourite fruits like cherries, blueberries or Saskatoon berries.2007 October, Cooking at Home: The Magazine Recipe Collection, collector’s edition, Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited…. From the entry pampushok
  • When JT was conscious he was throwing up artificial cherry flavored vomit.2006 October 8, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Showdown at Cremation Creek, Part 1” (16:48 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season…. From the entry crotch crickets

Meaning of cherry

  1. noun A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  2. noun Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  3. noun The wood of a cherry tree.

Full definition of cherry

Questions about cherry in a sentence

How do you use cherry in a sentence?
Cherry is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.”
What is a short sentence with cherry?
“I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
What does cherry mean?
Cherry means a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cherry (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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