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  • adjective having the approximate size of an apple

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Examples

  • There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.

    Manhattan Meets Grimm In Book Of 'Modern Fairies' 2010

  • There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.

    Manhattan Meets Grimm In Book Of 'Modern Fairies' 2010

  • They had black, apple-sized goiters on their body.

    Broken Bells: Danger Mouse Meets James Mercer 2010

  • There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.

    Manhattan Meets Grimm In Book Of 'Modern Fairies' 2010

  • There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.

    Manhattan Meets Grimm In Book Of 'Modern Fairies' 2010

  • Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In the end, I guess, the trick was several years of cleaning up under the tree coddling moths bore a hole in the developing apple, eat the core leaving a disgusting mess, and when the rotting apple drops to the ground, burrows in the soil for the winter and something called sticky traps; red apple-sized globes which are coated with the most remarkably sticky stuff ever invented.

    Happiness Is Christine Robinson 2007

  • In the end, I guess, the trick was several years of cleaning up under the tree coddling moths bore a hole in the developing apple, eat the core leaving a disgusting mess, and when the rotting apple drops to the ground, burrows in the soil for the winter and something called sticky traps; red apple-sized globes which are coated with the most remarkably sticky stuff ever invented.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Christine Robinson 2007

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