Examples of currant in a Sentence
Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
This includes chocolate and chocolate-based products, onions, leeks, garlic, chives, macadamia nuts, raisins, grapes, currants, products sweetened with xylitol, alcoholic beverages, and unbaked bread dough.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
The concrete lends a grippy texture without heavy flavorings of oak, allowing the blackberry and currant flavors to shine.
—Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
It's filled with your favorite holiday flavors—currants, pecans, apricots, dates, cherries, and ginger.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
For a colorful presentation, garnish with kumquats, currants, and fresh mint sprigs.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2023
Flowering currant is a native, but doesn’t grow well in every garden situation.
—oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
The 264-page guide offers details on how to manage inevitable fire by designing gardens and wildlife habitats as a defensive space with the careful placement of native plants.
instead of invasive butterfly bush, the authors recommend planting mock orange, red-flowering currant or blue elderberry.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
Line a rimmed baking sheet with a clean dish towel or paper towels and spread the currants on it to soak up any excess liquid.
—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
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Word History
back-formation from earlier corawnce, currantes, ellipsis from Middle English reysouns of corans, borrowed from Anglo-French raisins de Curance "raisins of Corinth," from Corinth, Greece
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Currant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/currant. Accessed 9 Jan. 2024.
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currant
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from Middle English raison of Coraunte, literally, "raisin of Corinth," from Corinth, city in Greece from which it was exported
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