Examples of “sloe” in a Sentence

noun The small, sharp-tasting wild fruit of the blackthorn.

• They picked sloes from the hedgerow to steep in gin.
• A sloe is too bitter to eat straight off the branch.
• The birds stripped the last sloes from the bush by winter.

noun The blackthorn tree itself, which produces sloes.

• A sloe grew wild along the edge of the field.
• The hedge was thick with sloes in blossom that spring.