Example sentences for: lilies

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

  • The painter lived at Giverny from 1883 to 1926 and painted the gardens many times, especially the water lilies.

  • Featuring the random deaths of young children, fatal automobile accidents, a suicide, and a lot of after-death romping amid watercolored lilies, it's about as deadly as a movie can be without literally emitting mustard gas.

  • 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.

  • The long, cobbled entrance avenue is shaded by plane trees, while the fields which lie on each side are carpeted with a wonderful spread of agapanthus and arum, and belladonna lilies in season.

  • 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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