pot plant
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Have you lost count of the times you've had high hopes for a pot plant but despite careful positioning and diligent watering it always seems to die?
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
Industrial hemp is not the pot plant cultivated by people hoping to grow their own weed.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022
His teaching experience was directly referenced – and mocked – in 1972’s Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, in which he held up flash cards of letters in front of an uninterested pot plant.
From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2020
A psychology student sat at a neat desk by a computer screen and a pot plant, waiting for the phone to ring.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2015
She came running across the railroad ditch to the road and, like a wilted pot plant that just got watered, smiled up at me with the purest pleasure on her face.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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