How To Use greengage In A Sentence
- Whatever you do this summer, tuck in to this gorgeous, grapey, spicy yellow plum and greengage-layered white. Times, Sunday Times
- Use a slotted spoon to lift the greengages into a serving bowl. Times, Sunday Times
- Greengages are the first plums of the season. Times, Sunday Times
- These trees also differ in their manner of growth: "the greengage is a very short-jointed, slow-growing tree, of spreading and rather dwarfish habit;" whilst its offspring, the imperial gage, "grows freely and rises rapidly, and has long dark shoots. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
- If they are greengages, they'll be sweet and suitable for eating.
- There are still strawberries, late and ripe, to go with the wild blackberries; Victoria plums and damsons are easy enough to find and even the odd greengage or two.
- And I want a greengage plum tree of my own in the worst way. Growing Food
- A pity, because the beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.
- The green skin may not indicate sweetness but ripe greengages are mouth-watering when eaten raw and they make excellent jam or purées for pies and puddings.
- He sometimes ventures farther afield, having gone to Puerto Rico for mangosteens, Italy for blood oranges and France for greengage plums, but most of his work is done in California. The Fruit Hunters
