How to use prune in a sentence

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• They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.From the entry doctor
• After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.From the entry overlarge
• Cut off whippy epicormal growths, especially if any have grown because of your last pruning.From the entry epicormal
• The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.From the entry perpetual
• I can't get on with prunes. They give me indigestion.From the entry get on
• We made a compote containing prunes, spronts and raisins.From the entry spront
• The trees were overfruited and needed to be pruned.From the entry overfruited
• A prune is a shrivelled plum.From the entry shrivelled
• A prune is a shriveled plum.From the entry shriveled
• The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.From the entry branchy
• When pruning a tree, stub cuts delay wound closure and can provide entry to canker fungi that kill the cambium, delaying or preventing woundwood formation.From the entry woundwood
• Underused neuronal pathways are pruned back, as are underused patches of mycelium.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 192. From the entry underused
• 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
• The pampushky were crammed with a flavourful but slightly tart prune filling.2007 January 18–24, Jennifer Marie Lewin, “Khrystos Rodyvsya means never never having to say you’re full”, in Ron Garth, editor, Vue…. From the entry pampushka
• In the fourth year, "light skiff" pruning removes just the uppermost growth.2001, Piya Chatterjee, A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation, page 173. From the entry skiff
• This pruning requires in-depth knowledge of flowering phenology of melliferous and polliniferous species in the area.1999, Kenneth W. Mudge, Eric B[arton] Brennan, “Clonal Propagation of Multipurpose and Fruit Trees Used in Agroforestry”, in Louise…. From the entry melliferous
• I keep telling her not to eat all that roughage for brekky; prunes, bran, and baked beans.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188. From the entry roughage
• The barber set to work with scissors and clippers, electric buzzers and pruning shears.1990, Mark Teague, Moog-Moog, Space Barber, Scholastic Corporation, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry crinkler
• “If you want to do some pruning, you just wind it up and spin it round.”1989, Helen Townsend, Miranda′s Album, page 52. From the entry Hills Hoist
• Trees may be pruned to a variety of distortions, artistic to some beholders, machinistic to others.1988, Taylor's Guide to Gardening, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry machinistic
• They continued to grow as arbuscles and no longer needed summer pruning.1967, OTS, Washington, D.C.: Office of Technical Services, United States Department of Commerce, →OCLC, pages 87 and 150. From the entry arbuscle
• To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.2023 August 5, Diarmuid Gavin, “It's time to give my garden a makeover”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 28. From the entry secateurs
• 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
• He dragged a pruned bough over to the woodpile and started sectioning it into sticks and small loglets.2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now. From the entry loglet
• My best dog devices are the pruned canes laid on the ground where I don't want them to run.2000 April 23, Cass Bernstein, “What color socks do rosarians wear?”, in rec.gardens.roses (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec…. From the entry rosie
• I may explore different influences, but I always Scandinavianize them and use Danish products: goose, prunes, cabbage, apples, pork, mushrooms.2000 December, Raphael Kadushin, quoting Allan Schultz, “A Copenhagen Christmas”, in Bon Appétit, volume 45, number 12, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Scandinavianize
• The result: a dish that features polenta cut into triangles and delicately complemented by sweet, diced prunes and a marsala sauce.1988 June 24, Charlie White, “Restaurant Tours: Sole Mio's shining start”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry marsala
• It can therefore be seen that pruning is necessary in fruit trees if the best results are desired.1909, Gardens' Bulletin, (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry bushly
• Skiffing is the lightest form of pruning involving as it does removal of a certain amount of growth above the previous pruning level.2016, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea (2nd Revised Edition), page 202. From the entry skiff
• We finished off this Breton-inspired meal with homemade far breton, a flan chock-a-block with plump, moist prunes, lightyears from the often-profferred, dried-up version.2003, “Le Pays de Vannes”, in Rosa Jackson, editor, Paris Eating & Drinking (Time Out Paris), 6th edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN…. From the entry far breton
• You must taste my prune nibbles.1998 May 6, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Death in Disguise”, in Midsomer Murders. From the entry nibbles
• Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide.1998, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide. From the entry bordeaux
• When lowering the height of Deciduous trees, especially under utility lines, utilize drop crotch pruning where possible to minimize the likelihood of suckering.1980, Arboriculture Specifications, page 13. From the entry drop crotch
• Cranberries have a part in both recipes given below, starring in the tangy cranberry piecake and holding a supporting role in the mouth-watering prune piecake.1953 October 29, “New Meal-topper Invented: Piecake Joins ‘Cousins’ as Dessert Entity”, in The Evening Eagle, volume 27, number 269…. From the entry piecake
• Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane.1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57. From the entry blood
• A piece of human debris, usually plucked up and disposed of by the group of volunteers who pruned and preened the woods on a weekly basis.2020, Carys Jones, The List. From the entry preen

Meaning of prune

1. noun A plum.
2. noun The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. noun Something wrinkly like a prune.

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Questions about prune in a sentence

How do you use prune in a sentence?

Prune is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.”

What is a short sentence with prune?

“A prune is a shriveled plum.”

What does prune mean?

Prune means a plum.