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• He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.From the entry cosy
• For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.From the entry suffice
• A prune is a shrivelled plum.From the entry shrivelled
• A prune is a shriveled plum.From the entry shriveled
• That was during the gold fever, when strangers descended on the town and all the shovels were plum sold out at the general store.From the entry gold fever
• Those fillings include traditional prune, or “plum butter” as the bakery more appetizingly calls it.2020 February 26, RNS, “Before Lent begins, Paczki Day brings Chicagoans together”, in The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier, volume 126…. From the entry paczek
• Some fruit trees, like plums, do well in damp soil conditions.2012, Terri Reid, “Starting an Orchard”, in The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid: A Back-to-basics Manual for Independent Living…. From the entry apple
• My Aunt Elizabeth makes this deliciously dark and chewy chocolate honeycake with layers of tangy plum jam.2011 March 31, Beata Zatorska, “Around the world in 80 dishes No. 49: Elizabeth's honeycake with plum jam”, in The Independent, archived…. From the entry honeycake
• Both of them spoke with British aristocratic plums in their mouths.2011, James Edmiston, The Sterling Years: Small Arms and the Men, page 105. From the entry plum in one's mouth
• Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants, loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.2010, John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain, unnumbered page. From the entry red currant
• Hand fruits include apples, oranges, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, or small bananas.2008, Heather Bauer, The Wall Street Diet, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry hand fruit
• "She'll get plum bereft 'n worried, even git the all'overs, if n the place's all gaumed up."2005, Charles Ray, The Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry gaum
• Has a nice graham-crackery aroma, with a pulpy, woody feel and sour plum skin and rubber flavors.2005 October 1, Daryna Tobey, quotee, Wine Enthusiast Magazine Essential Buying Guide 2007, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press, published…. From the entry graham-crackery
• The sweet reek and disgusting, cough-syrupy taste of the local plum brandy, raffia or something.2002, Michael Crow, Red Rain (a Luther Ewing thriller), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry cough-syrupy
• We have bad weather in Shanghai leading up to summer, called the plum rains.2000, Carolyn Blackman, “A Lot to Learn: ‘Nowhere Else in the World is It Like This!’”, in China Business: The Rules of the Game, Crows…. From the entry plum rains
• I've had a few beers, and my dinner date has downed a few plum wines.1996 December, Gary Andrew Poole, “Qua”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry einstein
• A plump wine, with an abundance of plum and berry characteristics and soft, round tannins.1992, The Wine Spectator, volume 17, page 33. From the entry plump
• A dentiroster alights and sings on the branch of the plum tree.1985, Gioconda Belli, Marc Zimmerman, Nicaragua in Reconstruction & at War: The People Speak : a Collage of Chronology, Analysis, Poetry…. From the entry dentiroster
• Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711. From the entry stix
• “I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree,” said Matilda.1914, Saki (pseudonym; H. H. Munro), “The Boar-Pig”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts. From the entry by way of
• "You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter I, in A Girl of the Limberlost. From the entry daffy
• Each order will contain one dark chocolate custard, one bourbon vanilla bean custard, one raspberry currant and one brandied plum paczek.2024 February 14, Nicole Haase, “Let the good times roll: Where to find Mardi Gras treats, from king cake to paczki”, in The Cap Times…. From the entry paczek
• Sit and enjoy the people-watching, and on Friday nights try the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam.2018 April 13, Jennifer Walker, “Take 5: Vienna coffeehouses”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, page 51, column 1. From the entry buchteln
• It was plum colored, super short, and clingy and was covered in little holes that revealed my smooth silky skin.2017, Chyna L., chapter 8, in Risking It All for My Hustla 3, [Lincoln, Ala.]: Grand Penz Publications, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry plum colored
• Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits.2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN. From the entry thus
• Bohemian recipes for powidl use prunes (dried plums).2016 May 2, Kay Lancaster, “Re: OT plums or Prunes”, in alt.sewing (Usenet). From the entry powidl
• You said yourself he'd only to wait and the mine would have dropped into his lap like a ripe plum.2013, John Fletcher, A Far Country. From the entry like a ripe plum
• She wore denim capris with a bright purple T-shirt, making her eyes look more plum colored than blue.2012, Carole Rummage, chapter 10, in Refuge (Dark Light Dance; 1), Springville, Ut.: Sweetwater Books, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry plum colored
• She isn't going to just fall into your lap like a ripe plum, my boy,” the duke insisted.2010, Adrienne Basso, How to Seduce a Sinner, page 43. From the entry like a ripe plum
• His most extraordinary variety has smooth, fuzzless skin like a plum, tender yellow flesh and a honey taste.2008 June 18, David Karp, “Sweet Rewards for Apricot Explorers”, in New York Times. From the entry fuzzless
• Chouquettes are chou pastry balls, the size of a plum, which are topped off with some little chunks of sugar.2007 July 25, Charles Timoney, “Top 10 French delicacies”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry chou pastry
• Mark is a passionate tomato-phile who finds joy in big plums for marinara sauce, and beefsteaks for salads and sandwiches.2006 October 8, Irene Virag, “Tomatoes a bunch of lemons”, in Newsday, volume 67, number 36, page G16. From the entry tomato-phile
• "That pup has just plum' fell in love with our Sammy, an' Sam's real took by him," Pap said.2002, Glenna Whiteaker Wilding, Tales of a Ridgerunner: The Adventures of a Young Family Growing Up in the East Tennessee Mountains, 1890s…. From the entry dumb
• The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.1992, Edna O'Brien, chapter 9, in Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 66. From the entry douche
• He was wearing an atomic plum sportsjacket that made him look like part of the trombone section at a Carribbean bar-mitzvah.1989 February 26, Tony Kornheiser, “Commentary: Is the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns Fight Really a War?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry sportsjacket
• Sarcoidosis of the skin looks similar to lupus vulgaris except that it is more plum coloured and not as scaly.1981, R. H. Seville, E. Martin, “Sarcoidosis”, in Dermatological Nursing and Therapy, Oxford, Oxfordshire; […]: Blackwell Scientific…. From the entry plum coloured
• This rainy season is commonly known as "Bai-u" or "Plum-rain", as it occurs when the plums are getting ripe.1929, Y[oshitarō] Takenobu [ja], “Geography”, in The Japan Year Book: Complete Cyclopaedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan…. From the entry plum rain

Meaning of plum

1. noun An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
2. noun A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
3. noun Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).

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Questions about plum in a sentence

How do you use plum in a sentence?

Plum is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.”

What is a short sentence with plum?

“A prune is a shriveled plum.”

What does plum mean?

Plum means an edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.