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
  • That latest round of NFL-booth musical chairs has already seeded some decidedly dodgy ideas in the minds of our keenest sports-media types.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In the early 1990s, Gordon Getty seeded Newsom’s Napa Valley wine start-up, PlumpJack, which Newsom launched with Gordon’s son Billy and named after an opera Gordon had composed.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • If your orchid hasn’t bloomed in several months, that’s actually normal.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2026
  • When London Craft Week, an annual celebration of the handmade, unfurled across the center of the city this past May, the work of a thousand or so makers bloomed out of every corner.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Peperomia Many types of peperomia can be propagated from stem or leaf cuttings, including varieties like the watermelon peperomia, string of turtles, and baby rubber plant.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Stone was the consummate anti-Boomer Boomer, his best work existing in opposition to the official stories propagated by a top-down media infoscape.
    — Darren Franich, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Ida’s stillness is shared by the whole film, which seems more confidently rooted than anything in Pawlikowski’s previous endeavors.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Once plants have rooted and produced three to four new leaves, remove cuttings from their container and transplant each into its own pot.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
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“Fruited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruited. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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