(n.) A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday Tesco was selling 454g punnets of British strawberries for £2.
(2) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
(3) As the young Le Pen passed, a 63-year-old farmer, reduced to selling punnets of strawberries out of the back of his van amid what he called "lunatic practices of supermarket giants importing fruit from Mexico", beamed proudly.
(4) They sell at £2.25 a punnet, compared with under £2 elsewhere.
(5) Prices for fruit and vegetables range from 35p for a lettuce to £1.69 for a punnet of raspberries.
(6) Meanwhile, Marks & Spencer said it had sold a record number – almost 1m – punnets of strawberries last week.
(7) The supermarket will add a small plaster-style strip at the bottom of punnets of strawberries, containing a patented mixture of clay and other minerals that absorb ethylene – the ripening hormone which causes fruit to ripen and then turn mouldy.
(8) During the British season M&S sells about 1m punnets per week.
(9) It is like seeing the Fair Trade symbol on a punnet of strawberries In all this, Me Too!
(10) It also complained about a further promotion involving the same strawberries in which Tesco offered a free pot of single cream with each punnet but then removed the free cream offer, returning the strawberries to their "half-price" status.
(11) The old-fashioned fruit is also enjoying a revival as a result of the introduction of much sweeter “snacking” varieties, eaten straight from the punnet, which have more appeal to consumers.
(12) For seven days in 2011 Tesco sold 400g punnets of strawberries at £3.99, reducing them to £2.99 for a further week before marking them as half price at £1.99 for a further 14 weeks.
(13) It is like seeing the Fair Trade symbol, or a British flag on a punnet of strawberries.
(14) I remember walking through Soho and Loach stopping to buy us a punnet of strawberries from a market stall, while telling me pity was a rightwing construct: the answer to all setbacks, as the great American trade unionist Joe Hill said, is, “Don’t mourn, organise!” I recently watched The Big Flame , Loach’s 1969 TV film about 10,000 Liverpool dockers staging a work-in.
(15) A spokeswoman for Asda said: "We didn't roll this out as our research didn't show a benefit in terms of longer life when looking at the additional cost per punnet."