Example Sentences

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“You never know when something is going to bloom. When the ocotillo is flowering, it’s like a moving picture.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2017

It is the fact that, largely under his influence, a jazz renaissance is flowering on what was once barren soil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our economy is flowering, our technology is on a steep upturn, our working class is united in full solidarity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scanning the road, my heart is heavy: The mādhavī vine is flowering, The koil is a-calling, Kuhu, kuhu, resounding.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura

In the stem there still lingers a small quantity of the sleep-inducing principle, "lactucarin," particularly when the plant is flowering.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas