Fruit has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. | |
| 2. | Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it on a fruit salad. | |
| 3. | As we enjoy our delicious summer dessert of fruit salad, do we ever stop to think that the beautiful green kiwi fruit is a native of northern China or that the passionfruit is a native of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina? | |
| 4. | The fruit from this tree is sweeter than the fruit from that one. | |
| 5. | Then she went on a little bit farther, and came to an apple-tree, so loaded with fruit that its branches were breaking down, and the tree said, "Little girl, little girl, help me shake my fruit. My branches are breaking, it is so heavy." And the girl said, "Of course I will, you poor tree." | |
| 6. | "Can you make me a fruit smoothie?" "We don't have fruit. We used to." | |
| 7. | And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. | |
| 8. | And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. | |
| 9. | The problem is not that Vietnamese are eating large amounts of candy and ice cream. Instead, they’re buying products like fruit juices and yogurt, not realizing that all the added sugar may outweigh the health benefits of the fruit. | |
| 10. | "He's going to eat an apple!" No sooner had Mary uttered these words and pointed at Tom, who was already posing theatrically with the fruit held out to himself as if it were Yorick's skull, than the room all at once fell silent. Everyone was looking on, mesmerised, not daring to breathe. Tom had never before even touched an apple: no one had ever managed to make the fruit seem palatable to him, or even managed to get one within a few metres of him. But now, to prove his love to Mary, Tom had taken the apple, as Adam had from Eve's hand, and the last remaining moments of his life of virtue were slipping away. |