Example sentences for: wildflowers

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

  • 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."

  • One year ago, I asked you to join me in renewing your environmental license plate -so our children and grandchildren can see the majesty of a bald eagle soaring over Indiana's rural hills and valleys, so we can float down a river in a canoe and enjoy the breathtaking scenery, or so we can hike through the woods and see wildflowers in the spring.

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

  • Fertile fields alternate with stony hills, miraculously sprouting trees, and wildflowers.

  • 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.


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