How to Use pawpaw in a Sentence

pawpaw

noun

• Like the pawpaw’s shelf life, the fruit’s season isn’t very long.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2020
• Deer don’t eat pawpaw and give the tree ample room to spread out.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
• She’s never encountered a pawpaw fruit, but the plants should yield them in a few years.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Today, there are still wild pawpaw trees all over Ohio, usually found by rivers and in the shade.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2021
• Eyeing an Eastern red cedar for the side yard? Perusing pawpaws for the back?
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Stephanie Boudreau and Chris Lesjak brought their daughter, Sophia, 3, to the nursery to get a pawpaw tree for the backyard and a magnolia for the side yard.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• George Washington loved a custardy cup of chilled pawpaw.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Once inside the park, the tulip poplars, dogwoods, black cherry, sassafras and pawpaw trees are breathtaking.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Missouri also has an official state fruit tree, the pawpaw.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• This photo, captured in the summer of 2018, was the first to show a pawpaw sphinx moth probing and likely pollinating a ghost orchid bloom.
  — Steven Bedard, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
• As part of the class’ seed-to-table program, the youngsters will care for the 30 plum, pawpaw, persimmon and chokeberry trees, harvest their fruit and use the fruit in a salad, for a snack or perhaps to bake a pie.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Learn about the pawpaw tree with horticulture researcher Sheri Crabtree, and sample its fruit.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2010
• Judd invited the guests to share their own pawpaw experiences.
  — Yasmine Alsayyad, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• Humans have eaten pawpaw in North America for thousands of years.
  — Andrew Moore, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
• Her pawpaw was one of two National Guardsmen who reported seeing a creature while working near the old Army plant.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• The temperamental fruit has a brief season, dropping from pawpaw trees and offering a sweet bite, with a taste that falls somewhere between a mango and a banana.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2021
• The understory is strewn with sprawling colonies of pawpaw (Asimina triloba), one even offering a few ripe fruits.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2021
• Growing pawpaws, even under the best of circumstances, requires patience.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• In 1990, Kentucky State University began a research program with the aim of developing pawpaw as a new, tree-fruit crop for Kentucky.
  — Sarah Stolz, Cincinnati.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Many of the plants have to grow into themselves; Dambreville, for instance, is particularly excited about two pawpaw plants.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Since its exotic appeal can be diminished when the fruit is cooked, McDermott suggests churning pawpaws into ice cream.
  — Jill Warren Lucas, charlotteobserver, 8 Aug. 2017
• Water Younger pawpaw trees will require more frequent watering.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• Magufuli, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, said the testers had randomly obtained several non-human samples on animals and fruits which included a sheep, a goat and a pawpaw and the results came out positive.
  — Rabson Kondowe, Quartz Africa, 4 May 2020
• The mature canopy includes more than 22 species of deciduous trees -- including oaks, hickories and maples -- while the understory includes viburnum, dogwood, pawpaw and more.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 6 June 2021
• Western Maryland Lemonade is bottled locally in small batches with fresh ingredients like pawpaws (a fruit with a mango/banana/citrus-y flavor), autumn olive and wine berries.
  — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
• This all-weekend Sept. 15-17 event highlights the rich history and future possibilities of the pawpaw through delectable food and beverages.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• The ingredients include pawpaws, blackberries and hops sourced from various Kentucky farms and food producers.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2017
• After getting destroyed by Reitz during their early days together, Luck would eventually start stumping him on questions about pawpaw fruit or persimmon pie.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Smaller trees available were Chinese dogwood, eastern redbud, serviceberry, pawpaw, golden raintree and witch hazel.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Try planting pear (rose family), cornelian cherry (dogwood family), and pawpaw (custard apple family) trees together.
  — Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2017

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