Example Sentences

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Crocuses have budded in sunnier parts of the yard.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

At the edge of the bottom step a precipitous lilac branch that must have budded and bloomed in a single hour smote him stingingly across his cheek.

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

I was deeply impressed, and my walking-stick showed signs of budding, would have budded, indeed, only at the door of the Chapel it was taken from me by the Knave of Spades. 

From Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar

This year, for the first time, I have budded the European hazel upon our common stock for the purpose of observing whether the character of the guest will change the character of the host.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

Fresh flowers of loveliness have budded, expanded, died.

From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison