Example Sentences

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He hunted moose and deer and picked lingonberries, mushrooms, and bilberries.

From Scientific American • Aug. 13, 2021

Scots pine shin up the very steepest slopes, bilberries blooming in their shadow.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

Pick wild strawberries, raspberries or bilberries, according to season.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë