How to Use breadfruit in a Sentence

breadfruit

noun

• Order the breadfruit chips with a healthy side of ketchup.
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 11 Nov. 2022
• Jackfruit is a plant, related to both figs and breadfruit.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 May 2021
• Joseph said Irma had felled banana trees, thrown breadfruit and avocados to the ground and swallowed homes along the coast.
  — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
• Their wives and children stay behind on the island, an oval nub of silver sand rising out of the ocean with a clump of coconut and breadfruit trees in the center.
  — Hassan Moosa and Geeta Anand, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2017
• Finding a roadside breadfruit tree is like spending a moment in Eden.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• Grandpa pointed outside—to the trees, heavy with breadfruit and papayas and bananas, and to the nearby river, which abounded with shrimp.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
• In Egypt, her slippers are red leather, while in the West Indies, breadfruit, not a pumpkin, is the transformative object.
  — National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2019
• Forests and farms were wiped out, with coconut, breadfruit, mango and soursop trees destroyed, as well as plantain and banana crops.
  — Fox News, 12 Apr. 2021
• For those who like to eat local, make time on the way back for a stop at Jemma’s Seaview Treehouse Kitchen for broiled lobsters and a wedge of mac ‘n' cheese layered with slices of breadfruit.
  — Melanie Reffes, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2018
• Modern apes rarely pick up and eat fruit that has already fallen to the ground, although chimpanzees in some areas do gather dropped breadfruit.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2015
• Roasted breadfruit, yams, and sweet potato, plus festival dumplings, rice and peas, pressed plantains, and pepper sauce made from Scotch bonnets.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2022
• Tulasi shows me where neem and breadfruit trees once divided her land from the road, their disappearance depriving her crops of shade.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 20 June 2018
• The volunteers working to save Lahaina’s breadfruit have dug down to extract viable root matter.
  — Ed Komenda and Audrey McAvoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• These crispy crackers are made with breadfruit, a naturally gluten-free crop that helps enrich soil, along with turmeric and organic sesame and chia.
  — Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2022
• The tree produces the breadfruit, ‘ulu, a popular island nutrient.
  — Kara Nelson, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• The jerk meat is usually accompanied by starchy breadfruit, yam and a barely-sweet cruller called festival.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
• Other than the fruit trees dotting the property — supplying all the banana, papaya, breadfruit, and lychee the Evslins could want — little else has taken root.
  — Longreads, 8 Aug. 2017
• Like many Caribbean stews, this one is hearty and filling, but the inclusion of fish, spicy plantains, breadfruit, and coconut dumplings lends the popular fare a unique, addictive flavor.
  — Emma Sloley, Southern Living, 8 June 2020
• About ninety million years ago, during what’s known as the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, breadfruit trees grew in northern Greenland and the tropical oceans were as toasty as a hot bath.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Others include ‘awa (kava), kukui (candlenut), mai‘a (banana), niu (coconut), ‘uala (sweet potato), and ‘ulu (breadfruit).
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• The food depicted on the table includes African rice, breadfruit, catfish, chicken, cocoa, custard apple and soursop.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• The winding trail to the waterfalls brings hikers through an agricultural landscape of clove, avocado, breadfruit and nutmeg trees, and past islanders tending crops and lazy dogs sunning themselves in the dust of the trail.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 1 May 2017
• In Samoa, crewmembers traveled to the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson and collected specimens, and the captain spent time in a village with new and old friends from previous visits, enjoying roast pig, taro, breadfruit and fresh pineapple.
  — Kimberly Bowker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
• Indeed, plants have been prized on the islands since the first millennium A.D., when the ancient Polynesians arrived by canoe, bringing with them life-sustaining crops such as taro, breadfruit and sweet potato.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• The bar, which opened last year, is a veritable dreamscape, graced by floor-to-ceiling murals featuring gargantuan breadfruit trees and tropical birds the size of concert grand pianos.
  — John Wray, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2021
• Today, the estate is flourishing, with almost four acres of plantains, breadfruit, coffee, cacao, grapefruit, avocado, and chayote squash, plus flocks of chickens and ducks.
  — Kathleen Squires, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• Traditionally, pork and chicken are smoked over smoldering fires suspended on pimento wood, while breadfruit roasts in the embers.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2022
• Traditional varieties and knowledge about breadfruit was at risk.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
• Scientists believe breadfruit began growing in New Guinea, then spread throughout Oceania as voyagers traveled from island to island.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2022
• At that time, higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helped sustain a considerably warmer climate that enabled palm trees to grow in northern Canada, and breadfruit trees, a tropical species, to thrive above the Arctic Circle.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2013

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024