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

Q: How do you use the word "pineapple" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pineapple": The fruit is similar to an orange in shape and to a pineapple in taste. You can decorate the cocktail with a cherry or a pineapple.

Pineapple Meaning

/ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

intjA common safeword.

nounA tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.

Sentence Examples

The fruit is similar to an orange in shape and to a pineapple in taste.

You can decorate the cocktail with a cherry or a pineapple.

CEFR Practice Quiz

I bought a sweet and juicy ____ at the grocery store to make fruit salad.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She added chunks of fresh ____ to the fruit salad for a sweet and tangy tropical flavor.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple. Sense "An Australian fifty dollar note": From the yellow colour of a $50 banknote in the first, second, and third series of rice Australian dollar notes. Compare with lobster for a $20 Australian banknote, and watermelon for a $100 Australian banknote.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Spread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips." — 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 117:

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