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Example sentences for "tuberoses"

Lexicographically close words:
tuberculin; tuberculosis; tuberculous; tuberculum; tuberose; tuberosities; tuberosity; tuberous; tubers; tubes
  1. Calle Espoz y Mina III Women are selling tuberoses in the square, and sombre-tinted wreaths stiffly twined and crinkly for this is the day of the dead.

  2. Women are selling tuberoses in the square.

  3. Women are selling tuberoses in the square to cover the tombs of the envious dead and shroud them again in the lethean scent lest the dead should remember.

  4. The dinner was laid on a table in the centre, and the table was covered with tuberoses and stephanotis, surrounding the cupid fountain of perfume.

  5. Suddenly his heart seemed to swell with some emotion, a faint scent of tuberoses filled the air--and from exactly above his head there came a gentle, tender sigh.

  6. The scent of tuberoses caused him anguish unspeakable.

  7. The white statues stirred with the wavering shadows as he passed; the rich scent of the tuberoses called as a familiar voice; like a patter of tiny footsteps the ripple of the fountain followed.

  8. She also received the announcement on a garden terrace, by a caprice of chance; but it was a terrace of the South, starred and flowered all over with violets, heavily-sweet tuberoses and blue Florentine irises.

  9. Will Tuberoses flower the second year, is a question frequently asked, and usually answered in the negative, even by popular florists.

  10. Until recently Italy grew the tubers for Europe and America, but it has now been discovered that American grown tuberoses are superior in quality to the imported, and many florists of Europe now advertise them.

  11. Tuberoses are rapidly productive; ten old bulbs having been known to produce one hundred young offshoots in one season.

  12. Some enterprising florists have Tuberoses nearly the whole year round.

  13. We have had Tuberoses and Gladioluses to bloom much earlier than usual, and much more continuously throughout the summer and fall, as the result of planting them as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring.

  14. Jack Frost had dressed them in gold and crimson.

  15. She raided the borders of tuberoses and hyacinths; going down upon her knees, and gathering her harvest with all a miser's care, lest she should miss a single blossom.

  16. All these she heaped over the tuberoses and hyacinths, and then ran back to the room with the blue ceiling, taking the greatest care as she went that the breeze should not rob her of a single pistil.

  17. The tuberoses seemed to her to be extremely precious flowers, which would distil drops of gold and wealth and wondrous sweetness.

  18. And although she almost buried herself beneath the mass of tuberoses and hyacinths which she plucked, she next stripped a field of poppies, and even found means to crop an expanse of marigolds farther on.

  19. And there were other melancholy flowers also: fleshy ranunculi with rusty tints, hyacinths and tuberoses that exhaled asphyxia and died from their own perfume.

  20. Then she covered the whole bed with the hyacinths and tuberoses she had plucked.

  21. When she opened her lips for the kiss which was to stifle her, the hyacinths and tuberoses shot out their perfume and enveloped her with so deep, so great a sigh that the chorus of the roses could be heard no more.

  22. The house was a crush of wilting flowers, and smelt of tuberoses enough to give one a vertigo for a month.

  23. Oleanders and tuberoses and forget-me-nots, yes!

  24. I smelled the tuberoses and the great clusters of white lilacs.

  25. The odour of tuberoses still pervaded the house and brought, inevitably, the thought of death.

  26. She tole me the doctor hissef put a big bunch of white carnations and tuberoses in her hand, after they put her in the coffin, and she looked like a queen.


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