Example sentences for: erica

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

  • Erica is ultimately from the Greek for `easily broken,' and Calluna is a Latin and Greek word for `sweep or broom,' heather twigs being superior to those of heath for this purpose, which indeed might leave as much mess as it cleared up.

  • Calluna , although many variant garden forms are known, consists of only the one species, Calluna vulgaris . Erica (the name Linnaeus gave originally to both heath and heather), however, comprises several hundred species, nearly all found in the Cape of South Africa, with fewer than a dozen found in the rest of the world.

  • The Celts, pressed to the sea by the Romans, survived in lands either too rough for effective military operations or too incompatible to agriculture, but not too inhospitable for the Erica plant family.

  • She shared the pills with her classmate, Erica.

  • According to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (not available online, but the New York Times ' Erica Goode deftly summarized it on Jan.


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