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Example sentences for "veined"

Lexicographically close words:
veille; veillon; veils; vein; veine; veines; veining; veinings; veinlets; veins
  1. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.

  2. Here's that old friend who went by my side so many years: this full, fragile head of veined lavender.

  3. The wings are many-veined membranous sacs, covered with scales that are coloured according to species and arranged to form characteristic family markings.

  4. Near a stream I came upon a patch of the rare climbing fern, an evergreen fern which climbs like a vine and has flat, veined leaves that look like little green hands with four and five fingers.

  5. The calyx inside was of a veined purple or a silver-white, while four gold-tipped, light purple stamens clustered around a canary-yellow pistil.

  6. The spheres are veined and streaked and spotted beneath, with a dark crimson flush above, where the light falls on them, and in a certain aspect you can make out upon every one of them the three letters L, I, E.

  7. The stipules are large, broad and leafy, and the leaflets are usually ten in number, veined and thin in texture, one or two inches long, with tendrils.

  8. They are often striped with white and yellow, delicately veined with purple, and measure three or four inches across.

  9. The leaves are stiff and dark green and the flowers are half an inch or more across, with a yellowish tube and white petals, delicately veined with blue, with a pale yellow pistil and orange anthers.

  10. The flowers are half an inch long, pearly-white, the petals yellowish, veined with purple, and are quite pretty.

  11. The flowers are about three-quarters of an inch long, with purplish, woolly calyxes and bright pink corollas, which are veined and tipped with deeper color, with purplish bracts.

  12. The individual nuts are about the size of an ordinary apple, with a very smooth shell, somewhat veined or streaked.

  13. They are in general the hard and solid parts of those indurated strata, worn and rounded by attrition; particularly sand or marl-stone consolidated and veined with quartz, and many fragments of quartz, all rounded by attrition.

  14. He leaned from his saddle and took the blue-veined hand in his.

  15. Her blue-veined hands were so thin the light seemed to shine through them.

  16. A small tree with leaves alternate, simple, entire, irregularly nerved or veined at the base, petiolate.

  17. The walls are repoussés in fine arabesques, and sheathed at the base with old color-veined tiles that throw back the light in flashes from their surface.

  18. Neither could it detract, however, from the delicate prettiness of her refined face with its soft gray shadows, or the dark gentle eyes, whose blue-veined lids were just then wrinkled into coquettishly mischievous lines by the strong light.

  19. From the silvery lamp-light the gray hair seemed to have caught a metallic lustre on the ripples that ebbed back from the blue-veined temples, and the woman looked like a marble snow-crowned image, draped in black.

  20. A Livarot was swarming with life; and in a fragile box behind the scales a Gerome flavoured with aniseed diffused such a pestilential smell that all around it the very flies had fallen lifeless on the gray-veined slap of ruddy marble.

  21. There was one all of silver veined with deep red; in another, tufts of flowers resembling periwinkles had grown on glazings of reddish granite, and drops of water fell from the ceiling on the fine sand with never-ceasing regularity.

  22. Black, veined with purple, fiery red, or brown streaked with white, these beautiful grottoes displayed for their visitors the infinite variety of their shapes and colouring, their graces and their grand caprices.

  23. Lavender to white; variously streaked and veined with purple.

  24. Leathery; dark green, veined with white; one or two inches long.

  25. The sepals are veined with deeper lilac and blotched with orange.

  26. Five; nine to twelve lines long; white or rose-colored, often veined with darker color; usually having an orange spot at base.

  27. Papilionaceous; the standard veined with purple in the center.

  28. The shapely little blossoms are of a flesh-tint without, richly veined with deeper pink within, and quite fragrant.

  29. Pyrola picta, with its rich leathery, white-veined leaves and clusters of whitish, waxen flowers, was quite plentiful and always a delight to meet.

  30. Three to ten; in terminal racemes; greenish, veined with purple.

  31. The leaves are usually mottled in light green and richly veined in dark brown or red, and they often turn to a rich red later in the season.

  32. An inch long; dull white, veined with purple.

  33. The two upper tinged with brown outside; the three lower veined with purple; the two lateral bearded; the lower one with a short spur at base.

  34. Parkinsoni has white flowers distinctly veined and chequered with violet-purple.

  35. A distinct looking plant about 2 feet high, with blue-green leaves and spikes of whitish purple-veined flowers, that usually open in the afternoon during the summer months.

  36. It resembles Paxillus involutus in size and habit, in the crenate and involute margin of the pileus, and in the stem being obsoletely veined at the base and tomentose toward the gills.

  37. The fluted stem and veined outside of the excipulum mark the present species.

  38. Fisherman Dick had moved so silently that Morton had not heard him; but all at once the planks overhead seemed veined with light, and the figure of the fisherman could be seen dimly, with his face close up to a hole in the planking.

  39. Keeping his hand, fragile and veined and chill, under her own warm grasp, Bianca answered: "Lonely.

  40. What joy she seemed to promise, what delicate enticement, with every veined quivering leaf!

  41. Mr. Stone put out his veined and fragile hand, and touched the baby's toes.


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