Example Sentences

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Like the other weekend, an ovenbird and seven Northern Flickers and a couple unusual catbirds stopped in to fuel up on my red chokeberries and high-bush berries.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2021

Over the course of an afternoon here on his farm in the Finger Lakes region, he poured crazy, often-transcendent ciders that blend apples with fruits like chokeberries or sea-buckthorn fruit or local riesling grapes.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017

The headlights sent beams of light dancing through the mountain laurel and chokeberries beside the driveway.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor