flowerlike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flowerlike
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Lord Grigon’s dastardly hobby is skeet-shooting fragile, flowerlike critters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
“This elegantly structured book contains a long poem in 14 sections, ‘Scheherazade/Scheherazade,’ with the first seven early in the book and the last seven later, a flowerlike symmetry.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Among the standouts is a Susan Goldman monotype in which a flowerlike circular form is overlaid with nine squares of bright hues.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2016
Eventually Dior cultivated his groundbreaking Corolle collection, a line of extravagant, ultrafeminine, and flowerlike dresses that Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Carmel Snow famously labeled the New Look.
From Architectural Digest • Oct. 31, 2014
Its flowerlike delicacy and prettiness and the glow in her wide blue eyes were more than he could withstand.
From Bloom of Cactus by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
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