How to Use freestone in a Sentence

freestone

noun

• A freestone peach can be cut in half cleanly, as the pit falls right out.
  — Julia Black, Bon Appetit, 25 July 2017
• The hush allowed the sound of a nearby freestone creek to echo louder in the forest stillness.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
• This is a freestone stream where the Stanislaus runs through boulder gardens and pools.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2019
• These are the freestone peach variety — known for its fruit falling off the pit — and straight from Georgia's Pearson Farm.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
• Either one can be clingstone (where the pit adheres to the fruit's flesh) or freestone (where the pit can be easily removed).
  — Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
• The Lands have decided to stick with freestone varieties since that’s what their customers ask for.
  — Ben Johnson, ajc, 2 Aug. 2017
• While The Peach Truck grows more than 40 varieties of peaches, freestone peaches are picked in mid-June until the end of the season and will likely be what is on the truck.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2019
• That dovetails with the beginning of the freestone peach season (when the fruit falls easily off of the pit), coveted by Texas peach fans.
  — Kim Pierce, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
• In later June or early July, the La Feliciana freestone peach is a good choice.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• Fresh peaches are organized into two types: freestone (peaches where the fruit easily pulls away from the pit) and clingstone (the fruit clings to the pit).
  — Callie Blount, al, 15 Aug. 2019
• Starting the last week of August, Ela will also harvest freestones — peaches with pits that fall right off the fruit’s flesh — as opposed to clings, which do just what their name suggests.
  — Josie Sexton, The Know, 28 Aug. 2019
• Right now, clingstone peaches are available, and freestone peaches will begin ripening in the next couple weeks.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 8 June 2022
• Skating usually works best in the infertile currents of medium- to fast-moving freestone streams.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
• Available starting in June each year, freestone peaches are perfect for canning.
  — Callie Blount, al, 15 Aug. 2019
• Despite the shift in climate, peach season still starts in May with clingstones, aptly named because their flesh sticks to the pit, and eventually segues into easy-to-eat freestones.
  — Kate Heddings, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Tricos are clambering, slow-water nymphs that often favor the weedy, silty margins of large trout pools, rather than tumbling freestone water.
  — John Merwin, Field & Stream, 23 June 2020
• From Bishop to Bridgeport there are happy places hiding sparkling lakes, freestone creeks, and thick groves of aspens that have already started to turn yellow as fall approaches.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The needle-nose plier technique is most helpful when dealing with clingstone peaches, but works with freestone peaches as well if one really can’t be bothered to slice them in half.
  — Ella Quittner, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2022
• La Feliciana is a freestone selection that ripens in early July.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• Peaches are a member of the rose family and are typically classified as clingstone or freestone.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2019
• Some growers also are starting to harvest TexRoyal and Sentinel, which are semi-freestone varieties.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018
• Major rebuilding works were carried out in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by the Carnarvon family and the old brick and freestone house was converted to a classical Georgian mansion within a pastoral setting.
  — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 30 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024