Stone fruit

Usage examples of apricot.

It was the same apricot brandy that he had brought to the little house that Hap and I had shared.

The banks were lined with flowering peach, and chiching trees with violet flowers growing directly from the trunks and branches, and behind them was a shady bamboo grove, and then the pear trees, and then a thousand apricot trees that were flaming with a million scarlet blossoms.

A tall, fair-haired woman in a jumpsuit was walking an apricot poodle, but she scarcely looked at me.

I am not able to imagine Naomi Griffiths unique, the one woman who owned apricot silk underwear.

The Chief Constable has ordered enquiries at the drapers and dressmakers about apricot silk and Naomi.

The tangled branches of wild apricot trees ringed the pool, perfuming the air with the scent of ripe fruit.

Above the apricot trees towered thirty majestic palms, their fernlike fronds splayed like open fingers against the starry sky.

Thick hedges of green briars, interspersed with acacia and wild apricot trees, lined the four canals that still divided the city into quarters.

I swallowed the warmth of a summer day, and then breathed out through my open mouth, tasting apricots and friendship as I held the flask out to him.

Up here rooting around for mushrooms and eating apricots out of my handkerchief.

In a minute I had a bag of crackers and a long-handled spoon, with an open can each of apricots and pineapples and cherries and greengages beside of me with Uncle Emsley busy chopping away with the hatchet at the yellow clings.

Ajaman had the night watch, and he wanted me to bring him some apricots and milk.

The air smelled of roses and apricots, and the world was filled with the singing of birds.

She decided that there were some bacon rashers left, in which trout could be wrapped, that there were some chives still in her window box, that she would take fennel for a vegetable and a pound of apricots for dessert.

Irritably, Colette put the trout in the fridge, cleaned the fennel, made vinaigrette for the avocados, and decided to eat the apricots as they were, without bothering to make tart crust.