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Example sentences for "strawberries"

Lexicographically close words:
straungely; straunger; straungers; strave; straw; strawberry; strawe; straws; strawstack; strawy
  1. Everybody sat about and gossiped for a little while, and then fruit cocktails, to which strawberries gave the touch of red, were served.

  2. One day, as I was quietly picking wild strawberries on a hill, I heard a curious grunting down the side below me, then the quick thud!

  3. Opening down in the grass with the wild strawberries of May, and continuing without break or stint, to close high in the trees with the persimmon, ripe and rimy with November's frosts!

  4. Upon his grounds at Cornwall he raises some beautiful specimens of the rose, and strawberries as large and luscious as any found in New Jersey soil during June.

  5. The strawberries in his patch were enormous, and each visitor to the vines in turn found Roe at his side, parting the leaves for him, and showing him where to pick the finest specimens.

  6. The robins know I am a friend of theirs, in spite of their taste for early strawberries and cherries, and when I am at work they are very sociable and familiar.

  7. We are enjoying the mountains here--riding the donkeys in the footsteps of the sheep, and eating strawberries and milk by basinsful.

  8. The strawberries succeed one another throughout the summer, through growing on different aspects of the hills.

  9. If a tree is felled in the forests, strawberries spring up, just as mushrooms might, and the peasants sell them for just nothing.

  10. Two small Canadian boys came to our house yesterday, with strawberries to sell.

  11. I would rather have strawberries look like pennies--" "I'd rather have them be pennies.

  12. Just s'posing those strawberries were bugs really, and when the hotel people ate them the bugs would bite.

  13. There might be bugs somewhere that looked like strawberries so folks would try to eat them.

  14. Didn't you dump twenty boxes of my strawberries into the chicken yard last summer?

  15. Maybe you will let me pick strawberries next summer until I get it paid up.

  16. If you meant them for a present, why, that's different; but I thought likely it was our pay for picking strawberries last summer.

  17. Now, if it was Judge Abbott or Mrs. Grinnell--Why, strawberries are cheap!

  18. You keep this dollar and fifty cents for your work last summer, and when the strawberries are ripe again, we'll see about your picking some more to pay for the spoiled ones.

  19. Cause you owe us a dollar and a half for picking strawberries last summer, and if you don't pay it, you ain't square with us, are you?

  20. Strawberries are partial to rather a light soil=, but nearly all other fruit-trees revel in a mixture of loam and clay, with a little sand to keep it open.

  21. If the culture of the perpetual varieties is extended strawberries will be in season many weeks longer, and this will be extremely good news for invalids, who find it as a rule one of the easiest fruits to digest.

  22. Put some strawy manure between the rows of strawberries and keep well watered.

  23. The cultivation of strawberries is fairly easy=, but their wants must be regularly attended to.

  24. This menu might be altered to cover these requirements, for as it begins with strawberries there need be no change until the final course, except that the chocolate should be omitted.

  25. The frozen strawberries are made by crushing the fruit to a paste, adding one-third as much boiled lemonade, sweetening well, straining, and freezing.

  26. Strawberries will be in market in cities by the latter part of April, and these will make a first course.

  27. Beyond the brook rises the hill, on the slope of which the meeting-house once stood, and where wild strawberries grew as they grow to-day.

  28. They had not, like the first comers to that coast to disembark in the midst of ice and snow, but green hills sloped down to the sea, and wild strawberries were growing almost at high-tide mark.

  29. I've some early strawberries from the city.

  30. The best crop is buckwheat or potatoes; I have had strawberries and blackberries in the orchard, but do not consider it best; I cease cropping after they come into bearing.

  31. I plant strawberries in a bearing orchard; they are as good as clover.

  32. Take these strawberries to Eppie, and save me the stairs, and you need not hasten down again.

  33. Have one cup of firm strawberries and then wash carefully to remove sand, then hull them.

  34. Transplant gooseberries and currants, and plant strawberries and raspberries: they will then be rooted before winter, and flourish the succeeding season.

  35. This may be eaten with sugar only, or both this and the fresh cheese are good eaten with strawberries and raspberries, as cream, or with sweetmeats of any kind.

  36. Raspberries or strawberries eaten plentifully have been found to dissolve these concretions, and contribute to the preservation of the teeth and gums.

  37. Next day make a thin syrup with the remainder of the sugar, and instead of water, allow to every pound of strawberries a pint of red currant juice.

  38. Put a quantity of the finest strawberries into a gooseberry bottle, and strew in three spoonfuls of fine sugar.

  39. Lay the strawberries in a large dish, and sprinkle over them half the sugar in fine powder.

  40. To 10 quarts of strawberries add 2 quarts of currants and proceed as for currant jelly, but boil fifteen minutes.

  41. Put the strawberries in the preserving kettle in layers, sprinkling sugar over each layer.

  42. Strawberries are better not to have water added to them.

  43. Then place a couple of strawberries in a small tumbler, strain the liquid on them, put in a strip of lemon peel, and top up with champagne.

  44. Mix well, and let the mixture stand for a while, then strain, add a bottle of seltzer water, a few strawberries or raspberries, and a block of ice.

  45. Dodo had got quite serious and absently dipped the last two or three strawberries into her tea-cup, imagining apparently that it contained cream.

  46. Dodo took the Princess up to her room, followed by her maid who carried a tray with some cold soup and strawberries on it.

  47. Harold, in the morning, as she helped him weed the garden and pick the few strawberries left upon the vines.

  48. The flavour of strawberries and raspberries is always impaired and weakened by cooking.

  49. You may use the juice of fresh strawberries or raspberries, stirred in while the flummery is hot, but not boiled afterwards.

  50. Strawberry cakes may be made as above, mixing the juice of ripe strawberries with the sugar.

  51. Reserve some of your finest strawberries whole.

  52. Spread out the strawberries on large flat dishes, so as not to touch each other, and set them immediately in a cold place or on ice.

  53. Then put the strawberries into glass jars or tumblers; pour into each an equal portion of the syrup.

  54. Instead of strawberries you may use raspberries.

  55. When the icing on the top has about half-dried, you may ornament it by sticking on ripe strawberries of equal size in circles, stars, or any fanciful figures.

  56. Put a layer of strawberries into the bottom of a preserving-kettle, and cover them with a layer of sugar; then a layer of strawberries; then a layer of sugar; until half the sugar is in.

  57. Are we to have strawberries for dinner, mamma?

  58. Picking strawberries--For more than a hundred years, as readers of Bartram will remember, the rich bottom lands of the old Cherokee country have been noted for their abundance of strawberries and other wild fruits.

  59. Sometimes an old woman would approach along the trail where the children were picking strawberries or playing near the village, and would say to them coaxingly, "Come, my grandchildren, come to your granny and let granny dress your hair.

  60. We one day gathered more than a peck of beautiful strawberries in my orchard, and we got a great many at other times: they made excellent pies.

  61. Strawberries nearly the same as scarlets, excellent, and in some places in great abundance.


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