Sentence examples for a prune in from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
In fact, the job has long been considered not a plum, but a prune, in part because the incumbent receives a constant barrage of criticism from various quarters, and the pay is far less than comparable jobs in the private sector.
Born in San Francisco in 1901 and raised on a prune ranch in the Santa Clara Valley, Mrak earned his bachelor of science, master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.
Little-known fact: University of California slugger Andrew Vaughn, this year's Golden Spikes Award winner as the best amateur baseball player in the nation, was a Prune Packer in 2016.
Basically, put anything from a bicycle to a pruning shears in the way of a tree, and over time, it'll just grow around it.
During pupariation, Drosophila class IV da neuron dendrites are eliminated through a pruning process in preparation for the formation of new projections necessary for the adult nervous system.
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.
Ten years ago, Goward went to New York with Fergus to cook a week of St John dinners at Soho House – the restaurant's fame had been spread in the city by two of its most ardent American fans, Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali – and it was thanks to this experience that, in 2005, Goward finally left St John, eventually taking up a job at Prune in the East Village.
Wrap each prune in a bacon length and secure with a toothpick.
Despite a few exceptions -- Prune in the East Village and 71 Clinton Fresh Food on the Lower East Side come to mind -- they can rarely afford to open in Manhattan now.
