Example Sentences

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He first alarms Dickens by attempting to kiss him and then infuriates him by harvesting geraniums from the garden.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Speaking surrounded by geraniums, he said he was happy to take any form of payment, although card was slightly easier albeit slower to process.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

And the plant orders that include geraniums and eucalyptus—once considered to be closely related—are in fact quite distant from each other.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2024

Plants will be nonirrigated and drought resistant: Adirondack crabapple for shade canopy, hardy geraniums for color, Point Reyes shrubs for evergreen ground cover.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023

Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez