Words similar to asparagus

Example sentences for: asparagus

How can you use “asparagus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

At first I was prepared to offer “sparrow grass” (for asparagus ) as elevated Slurvian; I now retract the offer.
Following Noble's instructions, I put a little cheap white wine into 15 glasses and then spiked each one with a different physical standard: peach puree, apricot puree, brine of asparagus, strawberry jam, wet cardboard, fresh strawberry, pineapple juice, soy sauce, green olive, melted butter, coffee grinds, fresh lime juice, cloves, vanilla, and shaved almonds.
Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .
Farmworkers in Yakima, Washington, for example, typically work in Yakima from the April asparagus harvest through the October apple harvest, and then return to Mexico until the work resumes the following spring.
For white wines, the physical standards include clove, bell pepper, brine from canned asparagus, and apricot puree.