Example Sentences

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Around me, the sun filtered through dense canopies of leaves, and mosses hung, beardlike, from Sitka spruces and Douglas firs, turning the landscape into a Seussian fantasia.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2017

And their drooping beardlike petals, with their ruffled edges, put on quite a show.

From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2016