FLOWER in a Sentence

Learn FLOWER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

327 example sentences for FLOWER, such as:

1. Each individual flower is tiny.
2. Her skin had the delicacy of a flower.
3. Most fruit trees flower in the spring.
4. A single flower does not make a spring.
5. The plant has a brilliant purple flower.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOWER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flower
 n.  the part of a plant that is often brightly colored and has a pleasant smell
 v.  develop completely and become obvious
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
2  It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  The flower blazed between the angles of the roots.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  And the tree was beyond the flower; the grass, the flower and the tree were entire.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  Down on his knees grubbing he held the flower complete.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  Then there was a roar and a hot breath and a stream of coarse grey hair rushed between him and the flower.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  Here came the sun--an illimitable rapture of joy, embracing every flower, every leaf.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  No flower felt it; no field; no garden.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  The flower petal sank; the maid returned to the kitchen; Bartholomew sipped his wine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
10  The bud has flowered; the flower has fallen.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  And hand him, as she handed him, a flower.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
12  There, sauntering solitary far away by the flower beds was Mrs. Giles escaping.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  Now may I pluck," Isa murmured, picking a rose, "my single flower.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
14  On different levels ourselves went forward; flower gathering some on the surface; others descending to wrestle with the meaning; but all comprehending; all enlisted.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
15  There had been no welcome home for the young squire, no festivities, no deputation, not even a single flower.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
16  Not a flower nor even a blade of grass will grow in this desert.
17  Each individual flower is tiny.
18  He has a flower stall in Portobello Road market.
19  A dream nobody cares,a Suigetsu mirror flower wasted.
20  They handed the flower round in quick order.
21  The reverse side of the coin has a picture of a flower.
22  The piece of wood had been carved into the shape of a flower.
23  The plant has a brilliant purple flower.
24  A flower has quite a complicated structure.
25  A single flower does not make a spring.
26  If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
27  Her skin had the delicacy of a flower.
28  This region is the home of many species of wild flower.
29  Most fruit trees flower in the spring.
30  The rose was chosen as the star flower because of its immense popularity.