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Example sentences for "cornflowers"

Lexicographically close words:
cornets; cornfield; cornfields; cornflour; cornflower; corni; cornice; cornices; cornland; cornmeal
  1. She forgot the cornflowers and stared at him.

  2. But we don't all do it," said Mrs. Lewisham, taking up the cornflowers again.

  3. They looked long and deep into the eyes of Wing Tip the Spick and thought, as they had thought before, how her eyes were clear light blue the same as cornflowers with blue raindrops shining on the silver leaves in a summer sun shower.

  4. They are so blue, such a clear light blue, the same as cornflowers with blue raindrops shining and dancing on silver leaves after a sun shower in any of the summer months.

  5. Nobody knew what the cornflowers were, except Willy Katz, an Austrian boy from the Omaha packing-houses, and he knew only an objectionable name for them, so he offered no information.

  6. I LOVE cornflowers on things," said Paul.

  7. She wore the black straw hat with cornflowers and wheat woven about the crown.

  8. When he left the dining-hall his attention was arrested by a black straw hat with a sheaf of cornflowers and ripe yellow wheat about the crown.

  9. She wore the black hat with the sheaf of cornflowers and wheat about the crown, and her face, shadowed by the wide brim, had the pallor of ivory.

  10. The Count, wringing his hands, gazed on a bunch of cornflowers tied round with grasses, which he had taken for a tuft of ostrich plumes in the maiden’s hand.

  11. The cornflowers blue, the poppies too, Waved in the wheat so proudly!

  12. I love cornflowers on things," said Paul.

  13. And his eyes, as they wandered from the three pretty women to the cornflowers and the poppies in the wheat, were wet with smiling tears.

  14. Under a cloudless sky, Maximilien heads the procession of his colleagues in a blue coat and yellow breeches, carrying in his hand a bouquet of wheatears, cornflowers and poppies.

  15. We pass through wide, unfenced fields of grain, interspersed with the ever-present poppies and blue cornflowers and from the hills we catch glimpses of the distant river.

  16. Crimson poppies and blue cornflowers gleam among the wheat, lending a touch of brilliant color to the billowy fields.

  17. Poppies and cornflowers would also last all summer if you would keep out part of the seed and sow a couple of times at intervals of several weeks.

  18. They had never been able to make crowns from the blue cornflowers and the red poppies which grew at the edge of tilled fields.

  19. Fields of corn, even before the corn in them ripened, even before poppies and cornflowers bloomed in them, fell victim to the feet and hooves of invading armies.

  20. To her it could not have been more marvelous if his hand had changed the river-sand to gold, or his touch wakened the dead cornflowers to bloom afresh as living asphodels.

  21. Permit me to present you to my wife; I should like to see the Cornflowers and the Mayflowers bound up in a bouquet, ha, ha, ha!

  22. If Primula, who looked somewhat shyly from under the cornflowers on her bonnet, seemed to stand rather in need of some such encouragement, the editor of Chrysophilos evidently could very well do without it.

  23. The land is too rich to remain widowed; look at that superb lot of cornflowers on those half-healed scars.

  24. Cornflowers and other wild plants had spread a living mantle over all three graves.

  25. The ears softly strike you in the face; the cornflowers cling round your legs; the quails call around; the horse moves along at a lazy trot.

  26. Only I was very weary with the heat, and the moon blinded me, and I felt lazy; and cornflowers were growing all about, and such big ones!

  27. He laid on a chair with his hat a bunch of cornflowers and a packet carefully done up in a handkerchief.

  28. I picked the cornflowers here in the rye.

  29. The cornflowers are all withered, and what can I do with them?

  30. Have a large bowl of cornflowers in the centre of the table, and smaller bowls at either end, if the table is oblong; if round or square, have four of the smaller bowls around the central one.

  31. Plaques of real or imitation Delft may hang on the walls of the room, and bowls of blue cornflowers and white carnations may stand in window-seats and on shelves as well as on the dining-table.


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