NOUN
- originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)
How To Use forbidden fruit In A Sentence
- Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
- She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit.
- The researchers call this the "forbidden fruit hypothesis, " based upon previous research that has demonstrated that people find things more desirable when they off-limits or forbidden.
- It were as if thoughts shared whilst freewheeling down a country lane existed for just those few shameless moments, then could be thrown away, to decay in the hedgerows like the discarded cores of forbidden fruit.
- Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
- It is said that the specific name _paradisiaca_ is derived, either from a supposition that the plantain was the forbidden fruit of Eden [151], or from an Arabic legend that Adam and Eve made their first aprons of the leaves of this tree, which grow to a length of five to six feet, with a width of 12 to 14 inches. The Philippine Islands
- But like drugs, and alcohol during Prohibition, black-market contraband always provides a means to acquire whatever is the forbidden fruit of the moment.
- They should have rejoiced with their blessings and not lusted after the one thing they could not have -- the forbidden fruit. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
- He felt very attracted to his best friend's wife, but admitted that it was partly because she was forbidden fruit.
- They lived in an Eden of the senses where the only forbidden fruit was borne of the tree of knowledge. COMPULSION