Example Sentences

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“Instead of just blowing past them, I said, ‘You know what, I have not picked huckleberries since I was a kid.’

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2023

These principles apply to picking huckleberries as for other foraged foods: Make sure the source is abundant before picking; take only what you will use; stay on the trail.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

It’s mostly fir trees, but Oliver also pointed out cedar, hemlock, maple, cottonwood and alder trees of varying heights as he bushwhacked through Wednesday, plus huckleberries, gooseberries and devil’s club plants.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

“Whenever I think of native foods, salmon is always the first food that comes to mind. And then the second food that comes to mind is huckleberries, which is in that dish.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

For four years now she had taken her “walks” and come home offering fuki tendrils, watercress, crawfish, mushrooms, huckleberries, salmonberries, blackberries—even clusters of blue elderberries for making jam—anything to conceal her purpose.

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