Example Sentences

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To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Photos show the couple surrounded by roses, anemones, delphiniums and hydrangeas which appear to be set up in woodland with strategically placed urns and an archway, wedding florist Nicola Paul told the BBC.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

They mingle with puffy red and fuchsia dahlias and purple phlox, as well as hydrangeas, sedum and Creeping Jenny, a ground cover that doubles as paths for strolling.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy