Example Sentences

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Of the gardens, there are three “don’t misses” open to the public, including Abbotsbury for its exotics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Hofvendahl became passionate about gardening in Altadena, where he turned their double lot into an orchard, with more than 150 fruit trees, many of them exotics.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

The python has been transferred to a specialist exotics centre where it is recovering.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023

At the time it was groundbreaking, even radical, to photograph transgender people as regular folk, rather than as exotics or freaks or medical specimens, and rarer still for the lensman to be transgender.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

But I have yet to lay eyes on their exotics or ring stock.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen