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Example sentences for "like flowers"

  • They produce an abundance of Lobelia-like flowers in August.

  • These hardy perennials form pyramidal bushes bearing Pentstemon-like flowers, thickly set and varying in colour from light pink to dark purple.

  • A very handsome, half-hardy annual producing large daisy-like flowers on long wiry stems, the upper part being white and the base yellow and lilac, while the reverse of the petals are of a light lilac.

  • A charming and graceful evergreen shrub, whose slender branches are covered with small pea-like flowers in May.

  • An attractive shrub, with spikes of reddish pea-like flowers in July and August.

  • The order Crassulaceae contains a number of low, succulent plants, with small, regular, star-like flowers.

  • The genus Stellaria includes some plants with pretty, white, star-like flowers, some of which adorn our hedgerows in early spring.

  • From June to September we may find the mist-like flowers of Meadow Rue in swamps, from Labrador to Manitoba and south through the United States.

  • Should its neighboring plants be three or four feet high, we find the plume-like flowers of this species triumphantly waving above them on stems of five, six, or even seven feet tall.

  • The light violet-colored, bean-like flowers grow in one-sided racemes.

  • The yellow, pea-like flowers are in small clusters at the ends of the branches.

  • There are many similar kinds, some with very handsome rose-like flowers, others with bright scarlet fruits.

  • It is, however, a pretty plant, especially when studded with its ruby-like flowers, which look like coloured Daisies growing upon a dense tuft of hairs.

  • Nodding in graceful, open clusters from the top of a shining colored stalk, the inconspicuous little bell-like flowers of this common plant spread their rays to release the branching styles for contact with pollen-laden visitors.

  • A pot of roots gathered in autumn and placed in a sunny window has sent up a little colony of star-like flowers throughout a winter.

  • Kitty had at times an eighteenth-century emphasis of diction, following in the steps of the heroines of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, who dropped oaths elegantly, like flowers.

  • No; they come out like--like flowers pushing up towards daylight; and then there's the devil to pay.

  • And next morning Chester asked her to come a walk with him, and on the walk the new relationship burgeoned like flowers in spring.

  • With one or two drooping, Fuchsia-like flowers.

  • It is a beautiful plant, with its feathery leaves and strawberry-like flowers; but by the roadside, where its viscid leaves and stems have caught the dust, it is often but a travesty of itself.

  • The feathery, daisy-like flowers of the common fleabane are of frequent occurrence in moist meadows or along the roadsides in spring.

  • Of course, there are fruits and nuts and vegetables that, like flowers, are hard to put in any class.

  • I mean how many principal kinds--like flowers, you know--they are Exogens and Endogens.

  • They are very stiff shrubs, with leaves very much divided, and cone-like flowers at the extremity of the shoots.

  • Dampier, a famous voyager, has Lobelia-like flowers, either blue or purple.

  • They have yellow cup-like flowers, and are of the easiest cultivation.

  • A section of Epidendrum, with hollow pseudo-bulbs, and white, wax-like flowers.

  • A fine genus, with large, pendulous, wax-like flowers of aromatic odour.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like flowers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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