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Example sentences for: roses
How can you use “roses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A modest summer palace, it is surrounded by beautiful terraced gardens where oleander and roses bloom luxuriantly and delicate fountains and cascades play among the neatly clipped cypress hedges.
As comfy as it is to be led from "two, four, six, eight" to "smash the state," it is kind of the "Roses are red, violets are blue" of crowd inciting.
Take time to smell the roses.
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.
In News Quiz responses and in the wider culture (if there is one), food is used as a metaphor for ideology (bread and roses; let them eat cake) and for character: Their attitudes toward eating reveal something, well, distasteful about President Clinton and Calista Flockhart.