grapevine

[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪpva‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪpˌvaɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. gossip spread by spoken communication
    the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth
  2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
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How To Use grapevine In A Sentence

  • The words of the grapevine say that they should just admit it already.
  • But, the rumours are on the grapevine that there are still some very big fish out there to be caught.
  • Also there were cornfields, grapevines, lemon trees, stands of bamboo, and forests of cactus.
  • Other fields and cottage gardens grow grapevines on overhead trellises, the soil beneath the arches being densely planted with cabbages and other vegetables.
  • It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
  • Dance the grapevine step rocking undulation belly dancing move with press down arms using tips from a dance instructor in this free dance lesson video.
  • To our knowledge, this tiny myxomycete is known only from moist chamber cultures of living tree and vine bark such as elms, grapevines, maples, oaks, red bud, red cedar, and yellow poplar.
  • Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • At Osterley what are central fruiting grapevines in the carpet are foliate swags in the drawing.
  • Sonoma County shimmers this month with fields full of red and gold grapevines and fat orange pumpkins.
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