How do you use the word "fresh" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fresh": It is still fresh in my memory. Our new English teacher is fresh from college.

Fresh Meaning

/fɹɛʃ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjNewly produced or obtained; recent.

adjNot dried, frozen, or spoiled.

Sentence Examples

It is still fresh in my memory.

Our new English teacher is fresh from college.

Let's go out for some fresh air.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

hot new good

Antonyms:

old salty stale

CEFR Practice Quiz

The salad tasted amazing because the chef used only ____ ingredients from the garden.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Nothing smells better than a loaf of ____ bread that has just been taken out of the oven in the morning.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk. Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Where will you find a purer and more suggestive bit of criticism given in a fresher and more implicatory style than the following?" — 1854 October, “You have heard of Them”, in D. W. Holly, editor, The United States Review, New York, N.Y.: Lloyd & Brainard […], page 327:

"Ross Douthat's gotten a lot of pushback for using his soapbox to complain that liberal Christianity lacks "a religious reason for its own existence." And with good reason—it'd be nice if the national paper of record's faithiest columnist could at least spin a fresher argument against us mainliners." — 2012 July 17, Steve Thorngate, “Morice-Brubaker takes on Douthat”, in The Christian Century:

"In fact, street food may well be fresher than that served in restaurants and cafes, as it is cooked at the point of sale. It's certainly much cheaper." — 2000, Catherine Hanger, Morocco: World Food:

"The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis." — 2020 September 26, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14:

"With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]" — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

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