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Example sentences for "cherries"

Lexicographically close words:
cherishes; cherisheth; cherishing; cheroot; cheroots; cherry; chers; chert; cherts; cherty
  1. When serving, place a thin slice of orange, three or four strawberries and three pitted California cherries in each glass, fill three-fourths full with mixture.

  2. JUNE SALAD Remove stones from red and pink Ox-heart cherries and cut them in halves lengthwise.

  3. Sweeten cherries to taste, add a few grains of salt and turn into lined pie pan.

  4. Drain pitted cherries from the juice; strew them over dough, sprinkle with sugar and dredge lightly with flour.

  5. I’d been ironing all that blessed day, and just before supper my half bushel of cherries had come down on me, unexpected.

  6. It was merely the cherries coming on top of the ironing.

  7. They had the exact appearance of natives, took each a basket of cherries with them, and did as if they were desirous of selling them.

  8. Wash the cherries and put them on to stew with a gill of water to a pound of fruit.

  9. Let it stand a week, then pour off the vinegar and boil it as before, pour it hot over the cherries the second time.

  10. Stew your cherries with sugar, in the proportion of a pound of cherries to half a pound of sugar, and stir in a little flour to thicken the syrup.

  11. If the water should soak into the cherries and leave them too dry, add a little more.

  12. Stone and stew some morella cherries; to each pound of cherries add three-quarters of a pound of sugar, and one tea spoonful of flour, mixed smoothly with a little water.

  13. To fifteen pounds of morella cherries add one gallon of the best French brandy or good Monongahela whisky.

  14. Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon; Eat them for my sake.

  15. I found my patient no worse, and after lunching off some delicious Paghman cherries I went on to the Palace to salaam His Highness.

  16. After dinner came fruit--cherries and mulberries, and finally cigarettes and tea.

  17. I dined: then after more cherries and a smoke, I retired to my gorgeous couch, well-pleased with myself and everybody else.

  18. At one time the egg plum and the Worcester damson were the chief fruit crops, apples and cherries ranking next, pears being grown to only a moderate extent.

  19. In some years the value of imported apples exceeds the aggregate value of the pears, plums, cherries and grapes imported.

  20. According to the 1908 returns, however, apples come first, plums second, pears third and cherries fourth.

  21. In the ceremony, a few of the cherries are taken in a spoon and held over the sacred smoke, then fed to the girl.

  22. She is in the top of that tree, gathering the finest cherries for me.

  23. He dropped the cabbage leaf and the cherished Brazilian cherries and ran down the steps again, blubbering piteously.

  24. When we came out we were famished, having eaten nothing but cherries and biscuits nearly all day.

  25. When awakened she asked for cherries, and we lay and dallied, and ate cherries at intervals.

  26. Gambardella could not have sucked an orange to save his life, because his long nose was directly in the way; he ate cherries slowly, and looked like a large brown bird of prey pecking at them with his beak.

  27. It was now the end of June, and the cherries must be getting ripe.

  28. Do you think that he would be offended, if I asked him to accept a basket of our choicest cherries and strawberries?

  29. By this time the cherries were all sold out, having left no trace except some red splashes, where an over-ripe sieve had been bleeding.

  30. The butlers finished passing something that resembled a ham, from which, in a flood of yellow cream, cherries poured like red larvae.

  31. Add half a cupful of sugar, and when the cherries are soft, rub through a colander and return to the fire.

  32. Serve with a Cherry Sauce made as follows: Stone a pound of ripe cherries and simmer the kernels for fifteen minutes in water to cover.

  33. Add three eggs well-beaten, and as many stoned cherries as can be incorporated in the batter.

  34. Cover with whipped cream sweetened and flavored to taste, and garnish with candied cherries or chopped nuts.

  35. Butter rounds of stale bread, spread with pitted cherries and their juice, sprinkle with sugar, and bake.

  36. Cherries and other fruits may be used in the same way.

  37. PEACH SALAD Prepare according to directions given for Apricot Salad, and stuff the halves with maraschino cherries and chopped nuts.

  38. Lastly, it is by means of cherries that one penetrates the great mysteries of life--when and whom you will marry, and whether she really loves you or is taking you for your worldly prospects.

  39. They blossomed early, and by the end of the third week in April the last of the cherries had broken into flower.

  40. Cherries and the generality of plums succeed very well either on an east or a west aspect.

  41. Peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries and the more tender varieties of plums and pears succeed well in houses of this kind.

  42. Lisle made a face, but said nothing, holding out some cherries to the man, who accepted two or three.

  43. Lisle was eating cherries unconcernedly and only gave a sheepish side nod to the market gardener as he looked him over.

  44. He was to be eating cherries as he drove through with the cart.

  45. When the cherries have become quite clear, remove the pan from the stove and seal.

  46. In the morning put all into the preserving pan, place on the stove and boil gently until the cherries look clear, skimming off the scum as it rises.

  47. The ripest cherries are the ones the packers reject, so we assisted the packers for several minutes picking out the ripe cherries and packing them while the packers packed the ones we didn’t pick.

  48. He has been kind to me, letting me live in his cherry-tree and eat his cherries and I want to reward him.

  49. He's been living there ever since cherries were ripe, and he won't come down.

  50. He was a very pretty young fellow, and he brought cherries to sell in graceful little straw baskets lined with moss.

  51. When cherries were ripe in spring, Violetta thought she would ask the Cherry-man about it.

  52. Meanwhile, the Costumer sat up in the tree, eating cherries and throwing the stones down.

  53. For you these cherries I protect, To you these plums belong; Sweet is the fruit that you have pick'd, But sweeter far your song.

  54. Large objects he could see as well as other persons; and even the smaller ones, if they were not enveloped in other things, as in the case of cherries among the leaves.

  55. He also observed, that when young, other children could discern cherries on a tree by some pretended difference of colour, though he could only distinguish them from the leaves, by the difference of their size and shape.


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