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Example sentences for "mangoes"

Lexicographically close words:
mangle; mangled; mangling; mango; mangoe; mangold; mangolds; mangonel; mangonels; mangosteen
  1. I smell a smell of curried prawns, and the first mangoes of the season are fragrant.

  2. For the sale of country-mangoes a place of vantage is required; so she takes up a strong position on the roadside or on the doorstep of a house and sets to work to pick out her best fruit and place it on the top of her basket.

  3. Jemadar Saheb" she calls him; and if this flattery is insufficient she offers one of her ripest mangoes with a glance that he cannot resist.

  4. The captain read Church of England prayers on Sunday mornings, in which I had no objection to join, and we had mangoes every day for a week after leaving Ceylon.

  5. Softly the Indian night sinks on the plains At full moon in the month of Chaitra Shud, When mangoes redden and the asoka buds Sweeten the breeze, and Rama's birthday comes, And all the fields are glad and all the towns.

  6. They came out on a broad tract of grazing-ground, brown and purple in the afternoon light, with a heavy clump of mangoes in the centre.

  7. The shore was fringed with palmyras, mangoes and other tropical trees, and behind the straw huts and stone buildings of the town leafy groves clothed the sides of a gentle hill.

  8. So the king went to the forest, plucked the seven mangoes that grew upon one branch, and gave a mango to each of the queens to eat.

  9. A holy mendicant, however, one day told the king that in a certain forest there grew a tree, on a branch of which hung seven mangoes; if the king himself plucked those mangoes and gave one to each of the queens they would all become mothers.

  10. Aponibolinayen who is very ill expresses a desire for mangoes which belong to Algaba of Dalaga.

  11. So they went truly, and DalonĂ¡gan went to climb and when he secured two mangoes he went down.

  12. Mangoes and milk are supposed to be poisonous.

  13. He supplied us for a trifle with a bottle of goat's milk, and as many melons, pines, and mangoes as we could manage to eat.

  14. Plantains, bananas, melons, and mangoes abound, and the last are especially fine.

  15. We ate our first mangoes in Honolulu, and were highly disgusted with them, assenting without murmur to the statement that the liking of mangoes is an acquired taste.

  16. In the same market I have found mangoes of the same quality ranging all the way from thirty cents to a dollar and fifty cents a dozen.

  17. The young mangoes had been strewn on the ground, and there was no hope of that crop.

  18. The boatmen came back after an interval with a huge load of mangoes which they piled into the boat, and offered us sixty for five cents.

  19. Finally he plants in the same way, the branch which has possibly two mangoes upon it.

  20. The most developed finale that I have seen, is when the tree was about two feet high with a number of leaves and two diminutive unripe mangoes on it.

  21. He then stopped his music and cut one of the mangoes off the tree, which my father ate and found to be delicious.

  22. When we had reached a mountain of mangoes round the corner of a lane, the monkey jumped off and climbed up to the top of the pile.

  23. And you know that mangoes taste very much like strawberries and cream with sugar on them.

  24. In India everything is shown in the open, and the mangoes lie in baskets piled up one above the other like little hills.

  25. Whenever we went out, this monkey used to sit on my shoulder, and if we passed through bazaars where mangoes and other fruits were sold, it was very difficult to keep Kopee from getting into mischief.

  26. Pour the liquor boiling hot over the mangoes four successive days; and on the last day put flour of mustard, and scraped horseradish into the vinegar just as it boils up.

  27. Mangoes should be pickled soon after they are gathered.

  28. Sow on the tops, put the mangoes into a jar, cover them with boiling vinegar, and do them the same as any other pickle.

  29. Before the mangoes are eaten, the first-fruits are offered to the moon, at the full moon of the month Chitra.

  30. When Bassia (mahua) buds or mangoes are first eaten in their season, a sacrifice is made, and a goat and fowl are killed before the produce of the harvest is first partaken of.

  31. Leonie and Theo had watched the fight between the cat and gecko through the slats of the shutter and now saw the boys quietly eating the unripe mangoes on the grass.

  32. Rene and Ricus, behind the overseer's back, for they were afraid of him, threw half-eaten mangoes at the prisoners and called them names and made faces and grimaces at them.

  33. As soon as their repast was finished the boys filled their pockets with mangoes and cocoa-plums and hastened back to the shore.

  34. We can eat all we want to of the mangoes however, they will not hurt us.

  35. He rested there with the pilgrim and ate the mangoes and drank water with the pilgrim, who was accustomed to eat mangoes and drink water.

  36. And when the king had bathed, the pilgrim took two fine mangoes from his skirt, washed them and gave them to the king.

  37. So the king married them and gave all the magic wealth to happy Good, and said: "My friend, I have paid you now for one of the two mangoes which I ate.

  38. There are some things which a man's feelings will not allow him to endure after a diet of mangoes and pony.

  39. Previous to the eight days they had been living on mangoes and the carcase of a small lean pony.

  40. It was a philosophy which denied the existence of everything but mangoes and pony.

  41. And they had had nothing to eat but mangoes for over eight days.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.