Example Sentences

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Gilead’s future hangs on whether the Plums remain ignorant and compliant, as does the story of “The Testaments.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The epitaph to “When the Plums Are Ripe” makes his perspective clear: “The world is my country, Cameroon is my subject, and Yaoundé my field of definition.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Her reputation rested largely on “The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women,” a 1989 volume that won the Anisfield-Wolfe Award for books that address racism or the diversity of human cultures.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017

“Don’t eat bush meat. Don’t play with monkey and baboons. Plums that bats have bitten or half-eaten, don’t eat them.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 14, 2014

“Plums, the operation is heating up in Baltimore,” she wrote, quickly dipping her pen into the blue-black ink, and I wondered who Plums was.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan