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Example sentences for "apples"

Lexicographically close words:
applause; applauses; applausive; apple; applejack; applesauce; appliable; appliance; appliances; applicability
  1. What kind of apples do you like best, Ezry?

  2. The apples are in bar'ls up against the wall, near the potater-bin.

  3. But when I get the dish filled up with apples there ain't a Baldwin in all the lot that can compare with the bright red of Laura's cheeks.

  4. Cold years that devour us all; The lilies blossom and wilt, The apples ripen and fall, The apples, the apples of Love!

  5. I am with you I forget that we never really see the sun, and Bindo says he is sure that your apples are better than our grapes and figs and oranges at home.

  6. He laid her gently on a couch, and called his housekeeper, a white-haired, kindly old woman, with cheeks like the apples that crowded his orchards in October.

  7. Grandfather is so afraid of the sea, and Bindo will be so sorry to leave before the apples are ripe, and me,—I cannot bear to leave you!

  8. Dorothea over the child’s sunny head; for, however hard poverty might pinch, it could never pinch so tightly that Dorothea would not find some wooden toy and some rosy apples to put in her little sister’s socks.

  9. Then May did eat The apples sweet, As nice as they could be; Then little May Had her full pay For planting that one tree.

  10. Then apples green So soon were seen, As round as they could be; And so they grew In sun and dew Upon her apple-tree.

  11. It was apple pickin' time and de mistress made us gather apples and pack 'em to the soldiers and we had to pack water from de spring to 'em.

  12. It's bloomin again, en it's got little green apples on it.

  13. Footnote 141: This surely is a mistake of the translator, as pine apples do not grow on trees, nor are their kernels the edible part.

  14. Apples and strawberries are their only fruit, both of which are good and plentiful.

  15. Owing to the moisture of the climate, the grape never comes to sufficient maturity for making wine; but its want is supplied by various kinds of cyder, made from apples and other wild fruits which abound in the country.

  16. The Apples of the Garden of Hisberna, 63 VII.

  17. And the sons of Turenn went safely to their canoe, bringing the apples with them.

  18. There are no apples in the rest of the world like them, for their beauty and for the secret virtues they possess.

  19. After rowing for a long time, their store of apples failed them, and they had nothing to eat or drink; so that they suffered sorely under a hot sun, and their mouths and nostrils were filled with the briny smell of the sea.

  20. And they plucked the apples till morning, and brought them on board, till they had gathered as much as they could stow into their vessel.

  21. For three days and three nights the ship coasted the island, and during all this time he held the branch, letting it slide through his hand, till on the third day he found a cluster of seven apples on the very end.

  22. The three apples I ask are the apples of the Garden of Hisberna,[XLII.

  23. Each of these apples supplied the travellers with food and drink for forty days and forty nights.

  24. Brian answered, "As the apples are the first part of the fine, we shall seek them first.

  25. But they are wounded even unto death; and now give me, I pray thee, the apples from the Garden of Hisberna, to cure them, else they die.

  26. A little after sunset, when the animals had retired to their caves, the birds flocked in on the island, and spread themselves over it, plucking the apples from the trees and eating them.

  27. The apples were packed in casks, and were then fit to be sent off to distant markets.

  28. We sprang to our feet; down the steep we dashed, through orchards of apples and grapes and other fruit.

  29. The three apples I asked of you are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the most beautiful and have most virtue in them of the apples of the whole world.

  30. They went on through the wood, and after a while they came to an apple garden having red apples in it, and leafy oak-trees, and hazels yellow with nuts.

  31. And it was an apple of that apple-tree brought Connla here to me; a good tree it is, with its white-blossomed branches, and its golden apples that would satisfy the whole house.

  32. And indeed it was a beautiful rath at that time, with golden-yellow apples in it and crimson-pointed nuts of the wood.

  33. So they went into their boat, and they left the blue streams of the coast of Greece, and they said: "We are well off when we have the apples and the skin.

  34. So he went on shore; and it is the way he was, with a strong iron flail in his hand having seven balls of pure iron on it, and fifty iron chains, and fifty apples on every chain, and fifty deadly thorns on every apple.

  35. Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.

  36. So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.

  37. Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.

  38. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.

  39. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.

  40. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.

  41. He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.

  42. But she only answered, 'A nice thing to ask me to do, one of the apples might fall on my head,' and passed on.

  43. Not so much as a seed of those apples exists any longer.

  44. Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great price by the bushel, if any of them could be found growing in the orchards of nowadays!

  45. And now Hercules began to consider what he should do, in case Atlas should be drowned in the sea, or if he were to be stung to death by the dragon with the hundred heads which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides.

  46. Cannot I carry the golden apples to the king, your cousin, much quicker than you could?

  47. Certainly, certainly," answered Atlas; "and very fair apples they are.

  48. We do not think it strange any longer that you should set out in quest of the golden apples of the Hesperides.

  49. You must go to the sea-shore, and find out the Old One, and compel him to inform you where the golden apples are to be found.

  50. After all, you had better have gone for the apples yourself.

  51. And even in the old, old, half-forgotten times, before the garden of the Hesperides was overrun with weeds, many doubted whether there could be real trees that bore apples of solid gold upon their branches.

  52. I ask you, therefore, for the sake of your own question, do you think it wise to pick my apples now?

  53. Its bright blaze was reflected back from the polished panels of the tall corner clock, and danced on the rosy apples and glossy filberts of the still unlighted tree, which stood, green and magnificent, beyond.

  54. And she doesn't eat much meat, she says, and she likes baked potatoes and cream and sweet baked apples better than anything.

  55. The climate here, we were told, is too hot and damp for them; but there are as many sorts of them as there are of apples in England, and some are much superior to others.

  56. He had the satisfaction of eating apples in the moonlight and of posing as a bitterly wronged boy at Drift when Mary came down, lighted a candle, and let him into the house.

  57. Tea being finished, the boy started homeward with a basket of fresh eggs and butter, a pound of cream and some early apples of a sort used for cider, but yet equal to the making of a pie.

  58. We can say to him, "Do not steal apples from this tree, or we will hang you on that tree.

  59. It is obviously useless to say, "Do not steal apples from this lamp-post, or I will hang you on that fountain.

  60. Near by stood a noble pear tree, laden with rich orange pears, covering the ground beneath with its golden treasures, while a contiguous apple tree mingled its store of bright red apples in rich profusion.

  61. During his absence Mrs. Benson purchased some apples of the man that then owned the orchard, and dried them, hoping to obtain some needful clothing for herself and children.

  62. The children paid for these apples, by picking up apples for Mr. Lambert, and he says he shall want them again.

  63. A dispute arising, an old man decides that the third brother should have her, as his apples were consumed as medicine, while the other two still have their chariot and mirror respectively.

  64. Many scarlet bricks there were In its walls, and old grey stone; Over which red apples shone At the right time of the year.

  65. On the bricks the green moss grew, Yellow lichen on the stone, Over which red apples shone; Little war that castle knew.

  66. Squirrels, black and gray, were still abundant where the oak and hickory were; the ruffled grouse still fed in families upon beech-nuts on the ridges and the thorn-apples of the lowlands.

  67. There were a few green apples in the kitchen, which the cook intended to stew that afternoon.

  68. Terry came out with one of the apples in one hand and the revolver in the other.

  69. Now Sir Gawaine was exceedingly fond of all kinds of fruit, and especially of apples and pears, so of these the queen had made large provision.

  70. The wrapping of apples for barrel packing is hardly advisable.

  71. Apples may safely be planted in the fall when soils are well drained and when the young trees are well matured, both of which are very important if winter injury is to be avoided.

  72. In the production of apples commercially those growers who can produce the best article the most cheaply are bound to win out in the end.

  73. Having given the reader an idea of the probable cost of bringing an orchard to bearing age, it may be well also to give the cost of producing apples in a mature apple orchard.

  74. Apples could not be shipped any very great distance.

  75. As these become more and more developed and as the industry becomes more specialized the farmer who is merely growing apples as a side line, except where he is delivering directly to a special or a local market, will be crowded out.

  76. Forty trees at the north end of the orchard are pears, but they have received substantially the same treatment as the apples and have not affected the cost.

  77. There is one creed: 'neath no world-terror's wing Apples forget to grow on apple-trees.

  78. The first tree it lit upon Was green with leaves unshed; The second tree it lit upon Was red with apples red; The third tree it lit upon Was barren and was brown, Save for a dead man nailed thereon On a hill above a town.

  79. The pine grew apples for a whim, The cart-horse built a nest; The oxen flew, the flowers sang, The sun rose in the west.

  80. Let's ride through the orchard and fill our pockets with apples before we start on our way," Harry suggested.

  81. The moonlight was so clear and radiant that the boys could distinguish the color of the few late apples that still hung on the trees.

  82. It is a little bird," said the dear little fellow; "or perhaps the bread sings when it bakes, as apples do?

  83. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.