Example sentences for: poppies

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

  • In southern rural areas, such strictures have been accepted, especially as the Taliban has provided a stable environment for the cultivation of poppies.

  • The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.

  • The USAT runs a front-pager reporting that as part of the just-concluded budget agreement, U.S. researchers will receive $23 million to continue work on a drug-eating fungus that could destroy opium poppies and coca plants.

  • the poppies sway the wind looks around the cat licks herself

  • Though poppies have legitimate commercial use (poppy-seed bagels, for instance), the feds are paranoid that gardeners will harvest them for opium.


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