hedge apple
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A hedge apple fallen on a car’s hood is “not the body / of a green, malignant thought, neither omen nor even / punishment for our evening’s joy.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
He curled the hedge apple behind him and let it fly a little harder than planned, knocking the smaller jack out of the circle.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
We were coming up to the crossing of Quagmire Road and the Hog Scald Road, where there’s a high screen of hedge apple.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Slowly, thoughtfully, I took up catching the hedge apple again, One, two, three..., but I wasn’t really paying attention to my counting anymore.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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