How to Use freestone in a Sentence
freestone
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If the peach is ripe (and especially if this is a freestone), the pit will often pop out.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
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This is a freestone stream where the Stanislaus runs through boulder gardens and pools.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2019
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The hush allowed the sound of a nearby freestone creek to echo louder in the forest stillness.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
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The Lands have decided to stick with freestone varieties since that’s what their customers ask for.
—Ben Johnson, ajc, 2 Aug. 2017
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Either one can be clingstone (where the pit adheres to the fruit's flesh) or freestone (where the pit can be easily removed).
—Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
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Available starting in June each year, freestone peaches are perfect for canning.
—Callie Blount, al, 15 Aug. 2019
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Right now, clingstone peaches are available, and freestone peaches will begin ripening in the next couple weeks.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 8 June 2022
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Skating usually works best in the infertile currents of medium- to fast-moving freestone streams.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
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Use fresh, freestone peaches that release easily from the pit, and brush the crust with an egg wash and a sprinkling of turbinado sugar for a crunchier result.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
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Tricos are clambering, slow-water nymphs that often favor the weedy, silty margins of large trout pools, rather than tumbling freestone water.
—John Merwin, Field & Stream, 23 June 2020
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Its columnar growth habit produces self-pollinating shell-pink flowers in the spring, freestone fruit in the summer, and bright yellow fall foliage.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
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That dovetails with the beginning of the freestone peach season (when the fruit falls easily off of the pit), coveted by Texas peach fans.
—Kim Pierce, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
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These are the freestone peach variety — known for its fruit falling off the pit — and straight from Georgia's Pearson Farm.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
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La Feliciana is a freestone selection that ripens in early July.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 15 Jan. 2021
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In later June or early July, the La Feliciana freestone peach is a good choice.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020
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Peaches are a member of the rose family and are typically classified as clingstone or freestone.
—Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2019
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The needle-nose plier technique is most helpful when dealing with clingstone peaches, but works with freestone peaches as well if one really can’t be bothered to slice them in half.
—Ella Quittner, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2022
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Starting the last week of August, Ela will also harvest freestones — peaches with pits that fall right off the fruit’s flesh — as opposed to clings, which do just what their name suggests.
—Josie Sexton, The Know, 28 Aug. 2019
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Despite the shift in climate, peach season still starts in May with clingstones, aptly named because their flesh sticks to the pit, and eventually segues into easy-to-eat freestones.
—Kate Heddings, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
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From Bishop to Bridgeport there are happy places hiding sparkling lakes, freestone creeks, and thick groves of aspens that have already started to turn yellow as fall approaches.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
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Some growers also are starting to harvest TexRoyal and Sentinel, which are semi-freestone varieties.
—Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018
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While The Peach Truck grows more than 40 varieties of peaches, freestone peaches are picked in mid-June until the end of the season and will likely be what is on the truck.
—Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2019
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While The Peach Truck grows more than 40 varieties of peaches, freestone peaches are picked in mid-June until the end of the season and will likely be what is on the truck.
—Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2021
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Major rebuilding works were carried out in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by the Carnarvon family and the old brick and freestone house was converted to a classical Georgian mansion within a pastoral setting.
—Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 30 July 2019
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