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Example sentences for: poppies
How can you use “poppies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Though poppies have legitimate commercial use (poppy-seed bagels, for instance), the feds are paranoid that gardeners will harvest them for opium.
the poppies sway the wind looks around the cat licks herself
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 author grows his own opium poppies, and wonders if he's going to be prosecuted.
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.