Example Sentences

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Mrs. Macy smiled at the loblollies and chinaberries curving around the perimeter of the Macys’ two acres.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

One of the old ladies from the residences yet to be converted to a rooming house was outside in her pink housecoat, sweeping chinaberries off her sidewalk.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson