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Use "persimmons" in a sentence
"I had Leong get me a case of persimmons from the Asian store or warehouse, I'm not sure where he bought it."
"Right now I’m writing a story that was born of times spent walking down a railroad track in Illinois with my grandfather, gathering persimmons from a grove hidden back beside the tracks, hickory nuts and walnuts … glass insulators … and the bones of animals that weren’t faster than a train … I didn’t have a story in mind, just images of the tracks … it was enough to start the fingers dancing."
"Ms. Bastianich doesn't like to have actual flowers in the kitchen, preferring to buy colorful fruit such as persimmons or pomegranates and set them out in a ceramic or wooden bowl."