Sentence examples for old prunes from inspiring English sources

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They are going to look like shrivelled-up old prunes sooner or later and you will still look dazzling!

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My internal mirror is a dried-out old prune.

I loved her outburst in which she called a vicar an "old prune", Ken Bruce an "old fool", and the head of Radio 4 a "gob on a stick".

In 1999, she caused complaints when she described a clergyman as an "old prune" to his face and called her fellow DJ Ken Bruce an "old fool".

A famous opening line of Onegin, "My uncle has most honest principles" was rendered by Arndt "My uncle, decorous old prune".

During Friday's show, the 48-year-old presenter made a series of bizarre comments, including claiming a newsreader had soiled her pants and calling the bemused clergyman in the Pause For Thought slot an "old prune".

The once adored mentor is left to shrug the experi ence off, to shrivel up like an old prune, or else to use his power to permanently damage the young upstart: when Gilot became the first woman ever to dump Picasso, he used his clout to try to quash her burgeoning career.

It's all about appetite for risk, which shriveled in the first quarter like an old prune.

Instead of asking that bossy old prune if she needed some water, I smiled as I left and cried all the way to the elevator.

There was definitely a box of chocolates at some point, and a cold bottle of Rully, and a bit of old vielle prune at the very end.

Just as grandma's old-fashioned prunes were transformed into trendy dried plums with the stroke of a pen, scary high fructose corn syrup is asking to be allowed to hide behind the neutral and natural moniker corn sugar, in spite of the fact that sugar does not come naturally from corn at all.

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