string beans
- plural of string bean.
Example Sentences
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Women have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh down in de Everglades round Clewiston and Belle Glade where dey raise all dat cane and string-beans and tomatuhs. Folks don’t do nothin’ down dere but make money and fun and foolishness.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
You see, I'd been watchin' a row of string-beans we had comin' along, and I wanted to spring the first ones on Vee.
From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William
I'd take my darling on my knee And bid this world goodbye! and at dinner, by actual count, he ate nine corn-dodgers, three helpings of string-beans, four sweet-potatoes and I know not how much sorghum.
From Mothering on Perilous by Furman, Lucy S.
How many rows of string-beans do you want to start with, and how many butter-beans?
From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Preston, Alice B.
