When her friends pair off for a movie night, Maria often plays gooseberry by tagging along and making things awkward.

At the party, James did gooseberry and awkwardly stood between the couple for the entire night.

Every summer, the family looks forward to the gooseberry seasons when jars of jam line the pantry.

Every summer she picks gooseberry from the backyard bush.

The gooseberry-pickers arrived at dawn to harvest the dew-dappled fruit.

For the summer fair, she baked dozens of gooseberry tarts that sold out within an hour.

I felt awkward when I played gooseberry at their dinner, listening to their private jokes.

I ended up playing gooseberry while my sister and her date talked at the party.

Whenever Mark and Lucy go out together, Tom does gooseberry by tagging along and making awkward small talk.

During the summer raids the crew specialized in gooseberry lay, slipping away with sheets from backyard lines.