fruited

past tense of fruit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fruited
Verb
  • And now EatFuti has flowered into the first-in-the-nation (to our understanding) State Fair food delivery service — a brand offshoot based, again, in solving a problem, this one much more personal.
    Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Staking helps protect tall or large-flowered dahlias from breakage and flopping over, especially after rain or strong wind.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • The Rainmaker drones seeded in a particular pattern in the clouds, and the resulting snowfall was easy to spot on radar as theirs.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Drivers are seeded 1 through 16, and much like other sports, what’s often more telling is who is peaking at the right time.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Across the archipelago’s more than seven thousand islands, countless sovereign communities once bloomed with distinct languages and traditions, until Spain claimed them all under a single name.
    Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Founded in 2009, the group has bloomed into a small empire—we’re talking nearly 70 of the South’s favorite restaurants, hotels, bars, and cafes, plus another dozen or so in development—with thoughtful intention.
    Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • These baby strawberry plants can be propagated to fill in empty spots in your garden beds or used to replace older strawberry plants that have become less productive over time.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The group is best known for a sustained series of supply-chain attacks that laced open source software with malware that self-propagated from one package to another.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The veteran Premier League title-winner will join fellow former England international Kyle Walker at Turf Moor, with Burnley currently rooted to the foot of the Championship after failing to win any of their opening five games of this term.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • After three or four weeks, a gentle tug on the stem should meet resistance, indicating that the cutting has rooted.
    Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 30 Aug. 2026
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“Fruited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruited. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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