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Example sentences for "lilacs"

Lexicographically close words:
likker; likly; liknes; lil; lilac; lilangeni; lile; liliaceous; lilied; lilies
  1. Shall I never go to Paris again in the season of lilacs and horse-chestnuts?

  2. There were words that got into my article as persistently as the lilacs and the horse-chestnuts.

  3. With the coming of May the lilacs and horse-chestnuts bloomed with the old beauty and fragrance along the Champs-Elysées outside the Grand Palais, but inside no prints and paintings were on the walls, no statues in the great courts.

  4. There were the same clumps of snowballs and lilacs at the corners of the house.

  5. When they got close to the house they saw that it had been deserted; there were no dogs or other domestic animals about, and this allowed them to get under the shade of the lilacs without discovery.

  6. The lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birthday,-- The tree is living yet!

  7. And yet the house is full of her; She goes and comes again; And longings thrill, and memories stir, Like lilacs in the rain.

  8. Can't get any more out of that plate," he sighed at last; and he scaled the tin plate into an inaccessible place between the lilacs and the fence.

  9. A clump of lilacs hid them from the schoolhouse, and Jane divided the pie, which proved to be filled with raisins, into five parts with his knife.

  10. The roses, the pinks, and the lilacs seemed to be wearing holiday clothes.

  11. Still others shone yellow as dandelions or purple as lilacs or green as the young grass that grows on the banks of brooks.

  12. Some of the Lilacs have a good many suckers from the root, as well as on the lower part of the stem.

  13. Damask and Provence, Moss-rose and Sweetbriar, besides tall-grown Lilacs and Syringa.

  14. I am never so much inclined to treat the blues, purples, and lilacs in gradations together as I am the reds and yellows.

  15. Purples and lilacs I can put together, but not these with blues; and the pure blues always seem to demand peculiar and very careful treatment.

  16. The Lilacs I have are some of the beautiful kinds raised in France, for which we can never be thankful enough to our good neighbours across the Channel.

  17. When he came to himself, he lay on the little plot of grass amongst the lilacs and laburnums where he had asked Emmeline to meet him.

  18. She turned the flank of the lilacs as she said these words and advanced in echelon with a stately swiftness upon the laurels beyond.

  19. The scent of the lilacs stirred profound, inarticulate emotions within him, like the poignant impression left by a forgotten dream of shivering delight.

  20. The odor of lilacs came to him illusively; he was certain that Eliza was standing at his shoulder; he could hear a silken whisper, feel an intangible thrill of warmth.

  21. The lilacs lay in a pallid heap at their feet.

  22. Her wall-paper was gray with purple lilacs all over it, and this was pink and green and white!

  23. Lilacs shall bloom for Walt Whitman And lilacs for Abraham Lincoln.

  24. Lilacs bloom for Walt Whitman And lilacs for Abraham Lincoln.

  25. And forever now when America leans in the dooryard And over the hills Spring dances, Smell of lilacs and sight of lilacs shall bring to her heart these brothers.

  26. While yet America lives, my heart, Lilacs shall bloom for Walt Whitman And lilacs for Abraham Lincoln.

  27. Soft and sweet as the breath of spring, it belongs to the season of lilacs and love.

  28. The lilacs came to a tardy bloom, and even on the cold ungenial air there floated a divine fragrance.

  29. The flowering parterre was untended, but the lilacs and the redthorn-trees made the garden fair.

  30. And the little lilacs she had planted--they were tall bushes now.

  31. He ran to the Forest of Lilacs and he had to be withheld by force from throwing himself across the boundary in order to search for his cherished Blondine.

  32. She found the branches of lilacs heavy to carry and thought it was time to return to the palace.

  33. She stood on a patch of grass by a rustic seat commanding the vista of yews, and above them, a wilderness of lilacs and laburnums, in full flower.

  34. In the garden the perfume of the lilacs suddenly make me feel ill because I am horribly sad.

  35. The odor of nocturnal lilacs mingled with that which came from the heart of dark roses whence the hot white sun quenches its thirst.

  36. Over the walls which the ages had filled with chinks dark lilacs spread.

  37. Do not burst like the lilacs of the flower-garden whose fragrance I alone have touched.

  38. For two centuries the bricks of the lowest story had been disjointed by the wild roses; lilacs and laburnums covered with blossoms the rubbish of the fallen ceilings; a plane-tree had even grown up in the fireplace of the guardroom.

  39. What--was it really true that the unseen lilacs and laburnums of the Bishop's garden had so sweet an odour that she could no longer breathe it without a flush of colour mounting to her cheeks?

  40. April cold with dropping rain Willows and lilacs brings again, The whistle of returning birds, And trumpet-lowing of the herds.

  41. These lilacs are very aged, and have lost the luxuriant foliage of their prime.

  42. Those lilacs and pinks are for me--I know it!


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