Example Sentences

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And fruits, which range from varieties of pear to bright citruses like orange and grapefruit.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

L’Agrumiste makes its cake with only orange, but Ms. Greenspan favors experimenting with other citruses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The one I sampled was ambrosial and diametrically opposed to the anemic citruses I’m used to, which tend to be picked before their time and left to ripen slowly under grocery-store fluorescents.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

The findings, published in Nature, revealed that modern citruses can be traced back to an 8-million-year-old ancestor.

From Nature • Jun. 18, 2019

Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2015