How to Use bear fruit in a Sentence
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Rahmani said this line of inquiry could bear fruit with the jury.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
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This is also the time to thin out crowded canes and remove any that are too weak to bear fruit.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
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Ten years and $10 million later, their efforts are about to bear fruit.
—Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
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Our mango tree is recovering from cold damage but did not bear fruit.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
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Cucumbers can continue to bear fruit through your area’s first frost in autumn.
—Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 20 July 2026
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And for Dobnak, a chance to nurture a lifelong dream that hadn’t begun to bear fruit.
—Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
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Walker’s appointment comes as the reset begins to bear fruit.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Struggle does not always bear fruit, and what passes for progress today might not be deemed as such tomorrow.
—Mark Brilliant, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
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How to Harvest After several years, your date palm tree will be ready to bear fruit.
—Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 14 Sep. 2026
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Some of you could begin work on many projects behind the scenes that will bear fruit in 2027 and beyond.
—Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026
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This year, it‘s back on the Lido with tangible proof that the initiative has borne fruit.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
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Our work with one of our long-standing partners, InVideo, is bearing fruit.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
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Depending on the specific variety, dwarf cherries can start bearing fruit in as little as two to five years.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026
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Pruning In winter, when canes are done producing fruit for the season, prune the canes that bore fruit down to the base of the plant so new ones will grow in the spring.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
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Dwarf rootstocks generally produce fruit more quickly than standard apple trees, which can take five to 10 years to bear fruit.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026
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These trees can begin bearing fruit in as little as one to three years after planting, compared to the five to 10 years required for standard trees.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026
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Through the wonderful discovery of Christian Science, our prayers for the world are effective and bear fruit.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2026
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Yet persistent American pressure on the remaining jihadi havens bore fruit over time.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
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Pollination may be one of the challenges of getting indoor plants to bear fruit, but the self-fertile acerola cherry (Malpighia emarginata) does the work for you.
—Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 25 July 2026
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Beauty Reimagined is already bearing fruit in EUKEM in many ways.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
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Additionally, some varieties have been selectively bred to bear fruit earlier in the growing season than standard types.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026
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Key Lime Key lime trees (Citrus aurantiifolia) are pretty reliable at bearing fruit.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
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Amer said the Lebanese army was prepared to take on more pilot zones if political negotiations bear fruit but warned the effort won’t succeed if conditions mirror the first attempt.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
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The reversal comes after Milei repeatedly touted declining poverty as evidence that his free-market economic overhaul was bearing fruit.
—Débora Rey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
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The real-estate people who stand to profit from conversion projects claim (unsurprisingly) that adding union-friendly requirements would make their math impossible, effectively killing a program that is already bearing fruit.
—Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
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The Irish have also started recruiting at a championship level, and that should start to bear fruit as early as this season, as Freeman's efforts on the trail have considerably raised both the floor and ceiling of talent on this roster.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
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The moves threw Ukraine’s military leadership into an unwelcome crisis at a time when its actions against Russia are starting to bear fruit and as Moscow has unleashed unrelenting aerial attacks.
—Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
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Paramount board member and major Skydance investor Gerry Cardinale last week noted that efforts to merge the back ends and tech stacks of Paramount+, Pluto and BET+ have borne fruit.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
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However, Jim is sticking with CEO Ernie Herrman, who promised on TJX's post-earnings call that fixes were swiftly put in place and already starting to bear fruit in the current quarter.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
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The Abraham Accords of his first term, establishing normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries, also show that Trump’s use of diplomats outside traditional networks can bear fruit.
—Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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