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Example sentences for "bougainvillea"

Lexicographically close words:
boudins; boudoir; boudoirs; boue; bouffe; bough; boughes; boughs; bought; boughte
  1. The massed cluster of a bougainvillea dripped clotted blood down the facade of the gate arch.

  2. The rich purple and crimson blossoms of a bougainvillea vine that almost buried the house made a fine splash of color against the golden adobe walls and tawny pastures.

  3. Again he was looking down on the house, almost hidden in the bougainvillea whose crimson blossoms splashed the golden walls.

  4. Again he was looking back at her, smiling over Betty's shoulder, and--the bougainvillea shriveled into a lace of black around empty windows that stared with fiery eyes from seared walls.

  5. In place of the bougainvillea draping all with purple clusters, a shriveled black lace hung around the windows that stared with fiery eyes from blackened walls.

  6. With its bougainvillea draping walls and porches in rich purple clusters, its pretty patio and outside kitchen garden, it was just such a home as would fit the dreams of a common man.

  7. The low sun filled the pocket in the hills wherein the buildings stood with fluid gold that set the chrome-yellow walls off in a blaze, fired the red masses of the bougainvillea with deeper flame.

  8. In the middle, a little fountain splashed, the walls were lemon-yellow and a splendid purple bougainvillea trailed about the pillars that carried a balcony.

  9. Wolf crossed the flags, and when he stopped by the bougainvillea his face was red.

  10. By and by Don Ramon sent him to a Spanish hotel, and for a time he wrote letters to his mother and Betty behind a bougainvillea that climbed from the flagged patio to a balcony.

  11. Colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa, natural size, to the underside of a piece of floating timber (after Allman).

  12. Allman, a colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa of the natural size.

  13. Colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa, natural size, attached to the underside of a piece of floating timber.

  14. Portion of colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa, more magnified.

  15. And there are palms and cypress-trees, and bougainvillea and other climbing vines.

  16. We did get a guide at last who knew where the bougainvillea house was, but it was too late then to go to it.

  17. It did not matter; there were flowers enough everywhere and bougainvillea on many walls.

  18. At this opportune moment Carson sauntered round the corner and joined them, and Mrs. Gruyere's face became so like a Bougainvillea flower that there was hardly any difference, except that the Bougainvillea was prettier.

  19. Scattered everywhere, grew golden clots of sunflowers, and away to the right a big Bougainvillea bush flaunted its fearful purple-magenta blossoms against the blue.

  20. That night it fell upon pink-washed walls, clusters of purple Bougainvillea that climbed the trellis, the white blossoms of a magnolia, and a row of carved pillars, while the square of indigo above was set with silver stars.

  21. Harding did so, and for ten minutes Tony, who stared straight in front of him at the blue Bougainvillea on the moonlit wall, spoke with quiet conciseness, while Harding sat in the shadow watching him.

  22. Portion of colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa (Anthomedusae-Gymnoblastea) more magnified.

  23. A long green praying mantis that had apparently mounted on the bougainvillea against the hotel wall appeared in meditative stateliness on the window-sill.

  24. The girl greeted and petted him, then went to gather flowers and cut bunches of bright-coloured leaves from high bushes of bougainvillea and poinsettia that hid her from view from the house.

  25. Allman, a colony of Bougainvillea fruticosa of the natural size.

  26. She looked at the narrow doorway and remembered exactly the attitude in which Count Anteoni had stood during their first interview, holding a trailing branch of the bougainvillea in his hand.

  27. Then they walked on in silence till they saw the purple blossoms of the bougainvillea clinging to the white walls of the fumoir.

  28. Through the archways and the narrow doorway the dense walls of leafage were visible standing on guard about this airy hermitage, and the hot purple blossoms of the bougainvillea shed a cloud of colour through the bosky dimness.

  29. A giant bougainvillea draped a complete wall with a mantle of royal purple.

  30. Climbing palms and massive creepers, splashed with orange, scarlet, and gold, tumble in masses from lofty branches, and the dazzling Bougainvillea flings curtains of roseate purple over wall and gateway.

  31. Under the deep magenta canopy of the bougainvillea vine the older woman discovered Gerry and her younger host.

  32. A bougainvillea vine had been allowed to grow so large that it covered one-third of the veranda, hanging like a flowery canopy above one portion of the garden.

  33. An avenue of palms is the epic of the desert; a bougainvillea vine its sonnet.

  34. When Jack crossed the bridge and stood in the opening of the hedge there was no one on the porch in the inviting shade of the prodigal bougainvillea vines.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bougainvillea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.