sloe

How To Use sloe In A Sentence

• Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
• Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
• `You can get me a drink in the interval,' said Vic, giving her a sloe-eyed grin. JUST BETWEEN US
• The fruit, called sloe, can be made into a liqueur called sloe gin, of the "fizz" fame, but Ulrike discovered a distillery that makes it into a kind of sherry made of sloes. Archive 2006-10-01
• There are readers who love this kind of sloe eyed, narrow waisted, naval academic excercise in adjectivity. Archive 2006-09-03
• There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
• Other members of the genus include the apricot, peach, sloe, and cherry.
• The hedgerows are rich with fruit, elderberries, blackberries, sloes, hips and damsons.
• I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin. Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
• The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue. The Book of Household Management