fruit cocktail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s in the bright red cherries that dress up a bowl of Del Monte’s fruit cocktail.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
Then there are its tiny organs, which seem to float within this clear flesh, like a pale fruit cocktail in the weirdest Jell-O salad ever to grace a tree branch.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
She has the same memories of school lunches as most Americans born before the 21st century: square pizza and fruit cocktail.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2019
Some will end up in cans of Del Monte fruit cocktail.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013
Jeopardy The only sounds, teeth munching melon and strawberry from Mom’s fruit cocktail dessert and Alex Trebek’s annoying voice: This fourteen-time NBA all-star also played minor-league baseball for the Birmingham Barons.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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