wild sweet william

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noun

a plant, Phlox maculata, of the phlox family, native to eastern North America, having purple-spotted stems and elongated clusters of pink or purple flowers.

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How to use wild sweet william in a sentence

He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss Bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.
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The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.
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So just looking forward to taking our sweet ass time with this next one.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
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So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
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Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.
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