sprig
noun
a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
sprigged
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past participleof sprig.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sprig.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sprignouna small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
Example Sentences
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We are invited to follow this enterprising urchin, in a sprigged greeny-blue tunic, striped shorts and flip-flops, as she scoots blithely on her own through an unnamed, generic contemporary metropolis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
The putting surfaces were then sprigged with TifEagle Bermuda, the same strain of grass that had been on them for the past 10 years.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 1, 2020
Drought-tolerant Zeon zoysia grass was sprigged everywhere but on the greens, which are Seashore paspalum, a hedge against the possibility that pure groundwater might someday become brackish from the nearby Atlantic.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 13, 2016
Woven with more primitive looms, early “imitation” shawls were relatively sober: plain or sprigged at the center and patterned only along the borders.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
