grapefruit

• Before the grapefruit was served, there was a knock on the door. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
• Out of a scruffy lab of bare wires and tubes, a nervous, grinning scientist tossed a grapefruit into a small metal ring, and without so much as a flash or a blink, the grapefruit was suddenly dropping out of a second ring at the end of the table. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
• Then, when he did, it was just a little too late The peddlers and their one-horse wagons were very ordinary looking; scores like them ranged the streets of Miami, peddling cocoanuts, grapefruit, and oranges. —  024 - Red Snow
• I pick 'em off quick as I can -- those chemicals they drag around, they're hell on the grass and shrubbery A pink dome the size of a grapefruit was rising through the murk of the lake, another little Stohler monster coming to meet Papa. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
• Nutritionally speaking, grapefruit is a hero among fruits. —  That's Fit

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