often attributive
1
: a smooth-skinned juicy light green or deep red to purplish black berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce wine
2
: any of numerous woody vines (genus Vitis of the family Vitaceae, the grape family) that usually climb by tendrils, produce grapes, and are nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation
3
Examples of grape in a Sentence
a bunch of seedless grapes
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His extended family owns roughly 1,200 acres of farmland in the region and grows cotton, wheat, grapes, melons and pistachios.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
The white wines were always watery, the red wines the opposite, composed on some blend of hot weather grapes from an unidentified region.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In late March, a 3-year-old Leavenworth boy known as EJ fell asleep for the night on a neighbor’s couch after eating grapes.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
By adopting organic, low-yield farming methods and the use of both local and international grape varieties such as Garnacha Tinta and Cabernet Franc, Albarrán and Bourdais hope to rescue this regional know-how and put Matarraña back on the global wine map.
—Siobhan Reid, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2025
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
The white wines were always watery, the red wines the opposite, composed on some blend of hot weather grapes from an unidentified region.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In late March, a 3-year-old Leavenworth boy known as EJ fell asleep for the night on a neighbor’s couch after eating grapes.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
By adopting organic, low-yield farming methods and the use of both local and international grape varieties such as Garnacha Tinta and Cabernet Franc, Albarrán and Bourdais hope to rescue this regional know-how and put Matarraña back on the global wine map.
—Siobhan Reid, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grape
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“Grape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grape. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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