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Example sentences for "flowering"

Lexicographically close words:
flowerage; flowered; floweret; flowerets; flowerful; flowerless; flowerlike; flowerpot; flowers; flowery
  1. Heads in small or large flat-topped clusters, flowering in summer or autumn; principal leaves on the stem --88.

  2. A rosette of basal leaves conspicuous at flowering time --38.

  3. Heads sessile or subsessile in small flat-topped clusters; flowering in spring or early summer; principal leaves basal (1-4 dm.

  4. Foliage leaf absent or undeveloped at flowering time, or merely persisting through the winter from the previous year --11.

  5. Principal leaves at time of flowering deeply lobed --5.

  6. Diameter of involucre at flowering time 1.

  7. Calyx-teeth 5, all equal or nearly so at the time of flowering --28.

  8. Diameter of involucre at flowering time 3-5 cm.

  9. Style long and slender, straight or nearly so (common spring-flowering buttercups, 2-5 dm.

  10. LXII As she went home she tried to recapture the magic of the flowering thorn-trees.

  11. She wondered whether Steven had seen the vision of the flowering thorn trees.

  12. It stirred at the sight of Karva and with the wind that brought her the smell of the flowering thorn-trees.

  13. It swept her, while the white glamour lasted, into the stillness where the flowering thorn trees stood.

  14. Flowering plants, which ought only to be there, and perhaps not many of them.

  15. The career of one fated to serve the art of music in the Paris of Franck's lifetime, and to wait thirty years for the flowering of his genius, was of necessity obscure and sad.

  16. There were terraces and retired alcoves, and winding ways cut through flowering thickets.

  17. Three of its sides were open, the over-story being supported on columns; the plaster wall was covered with masses of flowering and decorative plants, clinging to a lattice, and broken in the center by a niche enclosing an old marble fountain.

  18. Between these and other massive trunks the smaller trees and flowering shrubs were interspersed in so original and bewildering a manner that each glance forced a new exclamation of delight.

  19. I noticed around Santo Domingo; being only a little more than two and a half inches in length, including the bill; but it was very pugnacious, and I have often seen it drive some of the larger birds away from a flowering tree.

  20. In the end she was prevailed upon to accept some flowering bulbs in a quaint dish to take to a sick girl she was going to visit.

  21. Notice that many plants, like the trees, bushes and many vegetable and flowering plants, have stems which are very much branched, while others have apparently single stems with but few or no branches.

  22. In the flower beds we may find petunias, nasturtiums, geraniums, rose bushes and other flowering plants.

  23. You can obtain new plants from geranium, verbena, nasturtium and many other flowering plants, by cutting and planting slips or parts of the stems from them.

  24. All the rest were an entertainment to the eye as they stood, white and cool, amid their flowering magnolias, and their blossoming alleys, hedges, and thickets of roses.

  25. I often wonder," said another florist, "that women with gardens do not try to save some of their flowering plants that might easily be moved into the house.

  26. Then when the early flowering bulbs have faded, you can turn their green tops under the ground, first to allow the sap to run back into the bulb (the storehouse for next year), and next to decay and fertilize the soil.

  27. But once the buds do show, water frequently in order to enrich the color, and dig in fertilizer around the roots several times during the flowering season, to produce fine, big blossoms.

  28. Biennials, however, continue for two years before they perish, making roots and leaves the first year and usually flowering the second.

  29. All the ferns and green plants mentioned are likely to prove more satisfactory than the flowering ones to the amateur doomed to live in sunless rooms,--which, however, can be made most attractive with what is suitable.

  30. Flowering plants need sunlight at least part of the day, and generally do best in a south window.

  31. Both the height and the flowering time of the same plants vary with the different varieties, so find out the particular kind you get.

  32. B] A biennial, flowering the first year from seed sown early.

  33. The Malabar cardamom plant is a large perennial herb with a thick fleshy root-stock, which sends up flowering stems, 6 to 12 ft.

  34. Algae and fungi also were present, but there were no flowering plants.

  35. Carnations are usually propagated by "layering" the non-flowering shoots about the second or third week in July, in the open air; but almost at any period when proper shoots can be obtained under glass.

  36. Great, tapering cypresses grew about it, with many orange-trees and flowering shrubs that filled the soft, southern air with odours.

  37. Then behind the shelter of a flowering bush they embraced each other as do those who know not whether they will ever kiss again, and, the hour of sunset having come, parted as they must.

  38. The mound was covered with flowering shrubs, through whose entwining branches the shafts of a Verandah were partially seen, while the Pavillion to which it belonged, was wholly concealed.

  39. On the threshold stood an old peasant, all in white, his hands full of flowering cherry-branches, which he offered me as he bent down to kiss the hem of my gown.

  40. At the first sign of my carriage, troops of rustic riders gallop out to meet me, scampering helter-skelter on their shaggy little horses, bearing banners or flowering branches, shouting with delight.

  41. She plucked off a rose from a flowering rose-tree near her, and began to wrench out its petals with a quick, nervous movement.

  42. The broad staircase made a great bend, and in the angle was a high window, looking westward, with a deep bench, covered with a row of flowering plants in curious old pots of blue china-ware.

  43. Thus we had before our eyes the rationale of two of the native distinctions; traversed the zone of flowering shrubs; and saw above us the mist hang perennial in Mau.

  44. The star-flowering banner must never be furled, For its blossoms of light are the hope of the world!

  45. The finest flowering of Provencal flour is to be laid before you, right now.

  46. Those were gala days for Captain Morton; the whole universe was flowering in his mind in schemes and plans and devices which he hoped to harness for his power and glory.

  47. It was ever green and flowering round about the shore, and the song of birds filled the air.

  48. When Peace lay floating on the quiet surface of the tarn all the flowering and singing streamed towards him.

  49. Someone or something else must be concealed among the thickets of magnificently flowering native Jontarou shrubs about Telzey.

  50. Telzey began a surreptitious study of the flowering bushes about her.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplishment; advance; advancement; amplification; balmy; bloom; blossom; blow; booming; budding; clear; crescent; developed; development; elaboration; enlargement; evolution; evolving; expansion; exuberant; fair; fat; floral; florescence; florid; flourishing; flowered; flowering; flowery; furtherance; garden; growing; grown; growth; halcyon; horticultural; juvenile; maturation; mature; overgrown; palmy; piping; progress; progression; rise; rosy; sleek; thriving; unfolding; vigorous; young; youthful