Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "bear fruit"

  • As some time must necessarily elapse before the young plants begin to bear fruit, he may prosecute the other departments of his undertaking at leisure.

  • If under these appliances it bear fruit, he knows the owner will gladly permit it to retain its place; if not, he will abandon it to the fate which it deserves and invites.

  • Among the many beneficent uses to which a mistaken ingenuity has applied the principle of homoeopathic or imitative magic, is that of causing trees and plants to bear fruit in due season.

  • The secretly guilty were quite sufficiently influential, and the innocent sufficiently apprehensive, to keep up the agitation which had been commenced, and at last it began to bear fruit.

  • The study of the Roman law was beginning to bear fruit in the State as well as in the Church, and the imperial theories of absolutism as inherent in kingship were gradually altering all the old relations.

  • The seed, however, was widely scattered, to bear fruit in foreign soil.

  • His haughty prejudice against France still ruled all the decisions of the English government, but Lord Bute, the young monarch's adviser, was already whispering pacific counsels destined ere long to bear fruit.

  • The English government did not give it time to bear fruit; in the month of January, 1762, it declared war against Spain.

  • Till then he had travelled little outside his native land, and this expedition was definitely intended to bear fruit.

  • The British Government, not often guilty of fostering art or literature, may claim at least the credit for having drawn him out of his seclusion at the very moment when his genius was ripening to bear fruit.

  • And yet in all the seven years of its life, after having made fifteen efforts to bear fruit, it has not produced a single good apple!

  • It is simply a growth of the vine, produced by it and appointed to bear fruit.

  • And what is now, according to the parable, the life that one must lead to bear fruit, and then ask and receive what we will?

  • Recent events lead one to conjecture that liberty of cult, under native rule, would have been a misnomer, and Roman Catholicism a persecuted cause, with the civilizing labours of generations ceasing to bear fruit.

  • The tree begins to bear fruit at ten years old.

  • Will summer pruning cause apple trees to bear fruit instead of growing so much new wood?

  • Our opinion is like yours, and seeing some pear grafts set in peach branches would not convince us that they would grow or bear fruit.

  • So long as the tree is growing well, maintains good foliage to the tip of the branches and is otherwise apparently strong, it may be expected to bear fruit in due time.

  • The Rishi answered,--'The Vedas are said to bear fruit when he that hath studied them performeth the Agnihotra and other sacrifices.

  • Knowledge of the Sastras is said to bear fruit when it resulteth in humility and good behaviour.

  • Wealth is said to bear fruit when he that hath it enjoyeth it himself and giveth it away in charity.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bear fruit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear away; bear children; bear down; bear record; bear testimony; bear the; bear thee; bearing animals; bearing arms; bearing beds; bearing north; bearing surface; being weary; case occurring; certain length; chopped nuts; daylight next; glass jars; has been pointed out; having sent; hundred people; must feel; must get; questioned whether; strong solution; two ago