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How to use fruit in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Fruit means a product of fertilization in a plant, specifically. Example: “His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.”

Examples of fruit by meaning

nounAny sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not...

  • But fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply because they were difficult to ship and because growing seasons were so short.2025 January 13, Gina Kolata, “Have Americans Ever Really Been Healthy?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025

nounAn end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

  • His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
  • He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
  • It is incontestably the case that future generations enjoyed the extraordinary fruits of the Industrial Revolution’s “great enrichment”.2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times

nounOf, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

  • fresh-squeezed fruit juice
  • a fruit salad
  • an artificial fruit flavor

nounOffspring from a sexual union.

  • The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
  • fruit of one's loins

verbTo produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

  • For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests, →ISBN, page 10
  • The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 12

More sentences with fruit

  • The fruit trees in the yard keep me in apples and pears for most of the year.From the entry in
  • The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.From the entry disease
  • This year our apple trees bore a good crop of fruit.From the entry bear
  • The sense ‘state or process of bearing fruit’ has become imposed on fruition as the 20c. proceeded.From the entry become
  • If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.From the entry steam
  • My fruit trees should be in flower, but the cold spring has set them back.From the entry should
  • Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.From the entry past
  • Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.From the entry illusion
  • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.From the entry yield
  • Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.From the entry seedy
  • A slice of passion fruit was added to the dessert for visual interest.From the entry passion fruit
  • The painting is abstract, but the colors are suggestive of fruit or the Mediterranean.From the entry suggestive
  • Mother took our plates away and came back with some fruit for us to eat.From the entry take away
  • Insects may overwinter in fallen fruit if it is not removed.From the entry overwinter
  • That ice cream tastes very orangish - are you sure it's just passion fruit?From the entry orangish
  • A keen juicer, she has tried all kinds of fruits and vegetables.From the entry juicer
  • Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.From the entry bear fruit
  • After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.From the entry bear fruit
  • The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.From the entry underweight
  • With great reluctance, he was introduced to pomegranates, whenceforth he refused any other fruit.From the entry whenceforth
  • The sugariness of the sauce went well with the tartness of the citrus fruit.From the entry sugariness
  • Although the tomato botanically is a fruit, it is culinarily regarded as a vegetable.From the entry culinarily
  • The lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits, having several divisions containing seeds.From the entry plurilocular
  • I forgot to net my raspberries, and as a result the birds ate all the fruit.From the entry as a result
  • Court ruled that physical evidence that was the fruit of an unmirandized interrogation need not be suppressed.From the entry unmirandized
  • The economy of Alma in Israel is based on hillculture: vineyards, deciduous fruit, olives, and vegetables.From the entry hillculture
  • Returning to the house I grew up in, I resmelt the flowers and fruits of my childhood.From the entry resmell
  • They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.From the entry can
  • The sell fruits one go home already.From the entry one

Meaning of fruit

  1. noun A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.
  2. noun The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  3. noun The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

Full definition of fruit

Questions about fruit in a sentence

How do you use fruit in a sentence?
Fruit is used as a noun and verb. For example: “His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.”
What is a short sentence with fruit?
“a fruit salad”
What does fruit mean?
Fruit means a product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fruit (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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