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How to use the word grapes in a Sentence?

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The vineyard managers have been looking to control insects that might feed on the foliage or on the clusters of grapes themselves, one grower lost about 35 acres, and they stopped planting vines there for a while and were wondering if they could even have vineyards.

Brian Eshenaur

Found on CNN
1 year ago

George put those grapes back....she's a masons wife.

George and Mildred

added by Poohbear1970
2 years ago

For the last three weeks, table grapes have been experiencing lengthy delays at port. There are about 400 or 500 containers that are taking between five and 10 days longer than normal to be cleared, the fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs.

Jeff Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In some regions there will be very, very few grapes [ this year ].

Anne Colombo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine.

Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
3 years ago

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

I reckon '19 is going to be pretty spot on, it's a part of why you go into it - it's not just the romance about picking grapes, you've got to fight against all these natural things that come.

Mark Dietz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This year, we're planning on harvesting our grapes around late September or early October.

Etienne Rigo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Ruby Roman grapes look big and red -- like a ruby. It's been a painstaking process to achieve that red color.

Ruby Roman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

To stay strong in the market, you need unique wines such as these, we are talking about grapes that were here for thousands of years. We weren't here, but we can imagine that they drank this type of wine.

Ziad Bitar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think Georgia is just going to explode onto the radar next year, we're talking about 500 varietals of grapes, the origin of wine production in the world, stunning mountains, powder snow, castles and food that's just over the top.

David Jones

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are differences between the way mice burn fat in the liver versus the way humans do, we also have tested the extracts, so we can’t extrapolate and advise people that they can eat grapes or drink wine and get this benefit. [It’s] way too premature. And don’t forget, healthy or not, they are adding calories to your diet. You can overeat healthy foods, and gain weight.

Neil Shay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are a hundred times more aromatic molecules in a wine made with noble rotted grapes, making their delicious juice extremely viscous and sweet.

Berenice Lurton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

William Blake

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Edith Wharton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.

Arabic Proverb

added by anonymous
12 years ago

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Aesop

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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