tangerine

Example Sentences

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One is a Pixie tangerine that just never took and that I’m going to put out of its proverbial misery — it happens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

If their thoughts do turn to cricket, uppermost in England minds should be the problem of Bumrah, whose staccato action and educated fingers could probably swing a tangerine around corners.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024

For reference, I generally use the majority of zest scraped from one whole satsuma, which is about the size of a tangerine.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

About midway along the third-base foul line, I turned around and started to walk backwards, looking at Mary Hudson and holding onto my tangerine.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger