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Example sentences for "blackberry"

Lexicographically close words:
blackamoors; blackball; blackballed; blackbeetles; blackberries; blackberrying; blackbird; blackbirds; blackboard; blackboards
  1. They ran a race down to the blackberry patch.

  2. The dust weighted down pokeberry and stickweed, alder, blackberry and milkweed.

  3. Elsewhere there were mere stumps, serried rows of them, with a growth of mullein and blackberry between.

  4. This species shows a partiality for low, swampy places, covered with briars or tangled thickets of blackberry vines.

  5. Of leaves and strips of bark, lined with fine grasses; on the ground in clumps of weeds or blackberry vines; eggs white, sparingly spotted around the large end with rufous (65.

  6. Old Sol drank up the dew within a few minutes after his appearance over the Virginia hills and we made an excursion into a blackberry thicket where we picked a dish of luscious fruit for breakfast.

  7. Steep cliffs enclose the north bank of the canal and over these in luxuriant profusion were seemingly endless brambles of blackberry vines burdened with luscious ripe fruit.

  8. The dignity of the law was preserved only by Jake's unshaken resolution to plead guilty to the charge of feloniously eating one blackberry pie with never-to-be-forgotten relish.

  9. She swept some bits of blackberry leaves off her skirt, and prepared to turn homewards.

  10. Huge blackberry runners, purple and green, flung themselves before the door of it.

  11. Smilingly Olwen took aim with one blackberry after another, missing twice to each one that she dropped into the mouth not so far from her knee; a babyish game enough!

  12. The blackberry time was not intentional; but that time on the terrace?

  13. You shouldn't have stayed so long at the cove if you wanted a blackberry feed!

  14. He found it almost at once, pitched against a little cluster of blackberry canes with its wings still spread as though it were ready to fly again.

  15. Gramps became even more eloquent when Bud said that he wanted to plant a raspberry and a blackberry patch as well as soon as he had the money to buy plants.

  16. Illustration: The Church the Blackberry Girl went to.

  17. A something whispered to take the short-cut across to the junction of the road and Blackberry Valley trail, and face them and have it out.

  18. Nineteen years ago to-day she was born here where the hills shut in Blackberry Valley and the trees roofed it over.

  19. It was here she was going one hot July afternoon, as, with blackberry pail on her arm, she walked slowly down Sugar Pine Hill, thinking of the day when she had first met Job on that very road.

  20. An example of such fruit is the loganberry which is a cross between a red raspberry and a blackberry and retains many of the qualities of each.

  21. One of the few desserts made from fresh blackberries is that explained in the accompanying recipe and known as blackberry sponge.

  22. Pour the juice and the blackberry pulp on the cake.

  23. Against a dark background of blackberry bushes a white bull stood in the moonlight, motionless, the lustre gilding his horns and touching his great sullen eyes with a spark of amber light.

  24. The few blackberry bushes, almost leafless, stretching out on either hand, were indistinct in the mist, and against the dense vapour they had the meagre effect of a hasty sketch on a white paper.

  25. A young forest growing up under your windows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch-pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.

  26. He had opened a jar of blackberry jam, and was just going for it with both hands.

  27. Blackberry jam always makes me think of Tom," he said.

  28. The country for quite a distance, as we found, was partly bare, though there were occasional small oaks and tangles of hazel and blackberry bushes.

  29. They were in the midst of the hazel and blackberry bushes when there was a sudden cackle and flutter in the undergrowth, and a cry from Joergensen which brought Chickum hurriedly to the scene.

  30. Blackberry Pudding+ is made in the same manner as Plain Suet Pudding, except that 1 quart well washed and floured blackberries are stirred into the batter; serve with hard sauce, into which 1 cup bruised blackberries may be stirred.

  31. Peach, apricot and blackberry souflées are made the same way.

  32. This wine has to be kept much longer than blackberry wine before it is fit for use.

  33. Blackberry vinegar may be made by the same recipe.

  34. It was a steaming hot day, without a breath of fresh air.

  35. Later, we became more Spartan and strenuous.

  36. He found him out in a blackberry patch and mauled him to death.

  37. The idea of such a thing as I described lying on the top of a blackberry bush was too much for them.

  38. I sold a hat cord to a woman for twenty dollars, bought a dozen eggs for ten dollars, and invested the rest in a blackberry pie.

  39. Now place a row of blackberry leaves round the base of the mould, with the stalk of the leaf under the mould, and on each leaf place a ripe blackberry touching the mould itself.

  40. Take four very small leaves and stick them on the top of the mould, in the centre, and put the largest and best-looking blackberry of all upright in the centre.

  41. The juice and pulp from the raspberries and currants can now be thickened with corn-flour as directed in the recipe for blackberry jelly.

  42. We consider this dish worthy of being called blackberry jelly, and not corn-flour pudding.

  43. We now have to ornament this mould of blackberry jelly, and, as a rule, it will be found that no ornament can surpass natural ones.

  44. Keeping a firm hold on his bundle, he plunged through a tangle of blackberry bushes that grew beside the road.

  45. I noticed them hanging on a blackberry bush.

  46. He ran up a tree while Spot was struggling in the blackberry thicket.


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