Example Sentences

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In recent years ties between the two countries have blossomed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Hardung is right, of course, that it's not just strikers who have blossomed in the Frankfurt ranks.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

In the days since David Lynch died at the age of 78, enough tributes have blossomed to fill the Elysian fields.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

Those initial salvos have blossomed into a movement that Frankel, ever the enthusiastic marketer, has anointed “the reality reckoning.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

I sit up in my seat, and it’s as if my insides are like flowers that have blossomed after a tiny bit of rain.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi