Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Flowered, he will assist at love-making, wreathed in my lady's nut-brown hair; young and callow and unblossomed, he goes into the boiling pot and delivers the word of his sovereign mistress.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.

Night after night with a blemish of day Unblown and unblossomed has withered away; Come another night, come a new night, say     Will you pluck me apart?

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

This cannot be, Since reason and all mental gifts are thine; Within the lovely calyx sleeps the germ,— A flower as yet unblossomed.

From The Arctic Queen by Unknown

The babe begins a mere handful of germs; a bough of unblossomed buds.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

All around, the ground is olive-coloured with unblossomed heath, bright and golden here and there with the flowerets of the prickly gorse.

From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Edwards, Eliezer