old prune
Example Sentences
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In 1970, Winiarski and some investors purchased an old prune orchard off the Silverado Trail, a few miles north of Napa in what is now known as the Stags Leap District American Viticultural Area.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019
There was the story of the venerable battleship California�the "old prune barge"�raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, hit twice but now back at work.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You’ll turn into a wrinkled old prune, and for what? Elim?”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
"That would never do, old prune," said Frederick.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
"What, 'Puffy' Biggles!" says I. "Not that old prune face with the shiny dome and the baggy eyes?"
From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell
