Sentence examples for they were fruit from inspiring English sources

Nadine carried herself like the lord of the cats; she picked the feline creatures up at will as if they were fruit baskets.

For the remaining 148 food items, sugar content was estimated as follows: 58 food items were coded as containing natural sugar, since they were fruit, vegetables, grains, tubers or maize.

"They are fruit trees," the woman said of the tree in her path and another nearby, protruding from a brick shelter that housed the building's trash cans.

Actually, they're fruit -- and despite the name, they're not berries.

Most preservation techniques, for example, are basically similar over a whole range of perishable food products, whether they be fruit, vegetables, milk, meat or fish.

They are fruits, vegetables, herbs and wild foods.

Tomatoes were this summer's forbidden fruit (yes, they are fruits, not vegetables).

They are fruits that my mother loved to use in her cooking".

— Jeff Gordinier Bloomberg Businessweek: They are fruit-and-nut-bars, they are currently sold at 50 large supermarket and convenience chains in the United States, and they are called Kind Healthy Snacks.

But because of how they develop inside the plant, they are fruits.

Technically, they are fruits because the seeds are found inside the hard ovary of the plant.