Example sentences for: wildflowers

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

  • No longer the sole habitat of sun worshippers, the islands welcome thousands of cyclists in early spring; April and May bring hikers to exclaim over wildflowers; and bird-watchers with binoculars and zoom lenses record rarities and migrants on their way north.

  • Southeast of town is Shiroyama Park, whose unlandscaped slopes covered with wildflowers have a pleasantly natural look and offer an extensive panorama of the town and the Japan Alps beyond.

  • Come Memorial Day--when the country is absorbed in the annual rituals of war and remembrance, when flags bloom like red-white-and-blue wildflowers on thousands of graves--my thoughts will wander to "Rich" and "Chuckie" and "Jimi Vivar."

  • The hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris x vulgaris , sometimes called Primula variabilis ) is known as the oxlip . Usually it is called the common oxlip because it occurs quite frequently, but purists prefer to call it the false oxlip since there is a third species, Primula elatior , now found only in the eastern counties of England, which is, for them, the true oxlip . To add to the confusion the true oxlip is also known as the paigle , a name which, in the past, has been rather indiscriminately applied to several wildflowers including buttercups.

  • Pink are the wildflowers, blue the sky, and white the sea of clouds that rolls in beneath the rocky pinnacles.


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