Example sentences for: lilies

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

  • All this soft-focus packaging conveys the popular image of Claude Monet (1840-1926) as the painter of weekend pleasures, puttering around in his aqueous garden and filling his canvases with sunlit lilies reflected in the pink and blue water--a rococo Fragonard or Boucher marooned in the early 20 th century.

  • A pavilion in the corner of the Jardins des Tuileries is home to the outstanding Walther-Guillaume Collection and Monet’s renowned Nymphéas (Water Lilies).

  • Like Cézanne's last views of Mont Sainte Victoire, or Monet's water lilies, they had the slightly incoherent grandeur often associated with an altersstil , an old-age style.

  • Like Melville's Ishmael, who noted that "meditation and water are wedded for ever," Monet found that all his moods found echoes in the reflected weeping willows and tangled lilies.

  • Visitors to the "Monet in the 20 th Century" exhibition in Boston are in for a surprise, especially if they arrive in one of the museum's pastel shuttle buses decked with water lilies as if it had been dredged from a swamp.


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