How to Use bear fruit in a Sentence

bear fruit

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  • Cucumbers can continue to bear fruit through your area’s first frost in autumn.
    Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 20 July 2026
  • Struggle does not always bear fruit, and what passes for progress today might not be deemed as such tomorrow.
    Mark Brilliant, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
  • Some of you could begin work on many projects behind the scenes that will bear fruit in 2027 and beyond.
    Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026
  • The real-estate people who stand to profit from conversion projects claim (unsurprisingly) that adding union-friendly requirements would make their math impossible, effectively killing a program that is already bearing fruit.
    Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • The moves threw Ukraine’s military leadership into an unwelcome crisis at a time when its actions against Russia are starting to bear fruit and as Moscow has unleashed unrelenting aerial attacks.
    Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

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