Example Sentences

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They even sent each other gifts, including photographs and ink made from walnuts and pokeberries.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries.

From Time Magazine Archive

It came to rest behind a clump of pokeberries.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

A black pencil had made her eyebrows, and her cheeks and her mouth were red with the ink made from pokeberries.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

There were harsher plants as well—spiked jimson weeds and poisonous dark pokeberries, and bees droning everywhere.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien