How to Use breadfruit in a Sentence

breadfruit

noun
  • His first dish was a scallop and habanero leche de tigre with breadfruit and nori tuile.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • Finding a roadside breadfruit tree is like spending a moment in Eden.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, there were some people and communities who grew breadfruit and like breadfruit and ate breadfruit.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • 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
  • So Mike designed a solar dehydrator to dry breadfruit, which can then be ground into flour.
    — Richard Schiffman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Overhead, breadfruit trees provided shade from the punishing sun that gave Lahaina its name.
    — Sarah L. Voisin, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The jerk meat is usually accompanied by starchy breadfruit, yam and a barely-sweet cruller called festival.
    — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
  • The tree produces the breadfruit, ‘ulu, a popular island nutrient.
    — Kara Nelson, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Traditional varieties and knowledge about breadfruit was at risk.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • Many hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians planted breadfruit, and the trees captured the spring water that flowed from the uplands, keeping the soil moist.
    — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • Every villa has a private pool and is surrounded by fruit trees — lime, breadfruit, avocado, cocoa and cherry trees.
    — Sandra Guzmán, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Others include ‘awa (kava), kukui (candlenut), mai‘a (banana), niu (coconut), ‘uala (sweet potato), and ‘ulu (breadfruit).
    — National Geographic, 2 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 all-day menu has a focus on dishes that use ingredients common in the islands and staples of the Polynesian diet, like breadfruit tostones and spam.
    — Carly Caramanna, Parents, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Visitors help the staff dig and build a traditional imu underground with volcanic rocks, banana stumps, ti leaves and burlap sacks, and then fill the pit with mea ʻai staples like kālua pork, chicken, taro, yams and breadfruit.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The storm takes its name from the goddess of nature and breadfruit on the island of Kosrae, which is located in the Federated States of Micronesia.
    — John P. Rafferty, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The breakfast buffet at the hotel’s sit-down restaurant, Ave, offers an incredible spread with fun additions like Caribbean classic breadfruit and saltfish.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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