Sentence examples for Like a prune from inspiring English sources

Blistered and eventually dried like a prune," he said.

Weathered and lined like a prune in later years, his face was almost always expressionless – except perhaps when indulging a lifelong passion for Californian college basketball.

Then, feeling like a prune after two hours in the water, I will bribe them to leave with the promise of lunch in the gym's restaurant.

I will stay in the bath until I look like a prune and then fall into my soft, cloud-like bed to sleep like a baby.

All the power accumulated so patiently by Gordon Brown, his chancellor and rival, shrivels like a prune in the sun of a prime minister who has made himself a war leader at home and a household name everywhere.

The Wilson review speaks of universities as part of a complex "skills and innovation supply chain to business" which one imagines would have Prof Collini pursing his lips like a prune.

The fore limbs, say, curving round with a hook, look like a pruning knife.

He was the one to spike the punch and this year they let young Covode do it, maybe that's why Little Polka Dots can't keep a straight face and giggles across the music like a pruning saw.

The language and words, like 'shrivelled', made me imagine a prune like baby mouse or rat but never once did I feel terrified.

"Now when you see someone who looks like a raisin or a prune, it seems so unusual that you are almost repulsed".

A dessert of prune and Armagnac soufflé was perfectly matched with a sticky 2001 vin santo del Chianti classico, tasting exactly like (you guessed it) a prune and Armagnac soufflé.