fig

Example Sentences

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“It’s not granola. It’s fig. Do you want me to throw up?”

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

“There! Now I have made you solemn again. I should put a curb on my tongue. Here, take the fig. That should cheer you.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“I don’t have just one fig. I have a whole figment.”

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

At one place, close to the river, was a Laplander's shop, raised on a round pole, fig. a, as high as a tall man and as thick as one's arm.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von

This was practised before Sebastopol in the manner shown in the fig. p.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir