BLOSSOM in a Sentence

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And looking at them with compassion, not contempt, girls in their bloom should remember that they too may miss the blossom time.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLOSSOM
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blossom
 n.  reproductive organ of plants, especially one having showy or colorful parts
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3  More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
4  Her head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
5  He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
6  Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs of the people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
7  To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of her misery.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8  There is a moment when girls blossom out in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
9  This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
10  It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR
11  Providence, in the person of this little girl, had assigned to Hester's charge, the germ and blossom of womanhood, to be cherished and developed amid a host of difficulties.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  It did not appear to me that he took much notice of it, but before he went he asked my mother to give him a bit of the blossom.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
13  And looking at them with compassion, not contempt, girls in their bloom should remember that they too may miss the blossom time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
14  I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence:
1  The peach tree has an excellent blossom this year.
2  Life without love like a tree without blossom or fruit.
3  The cherry tree was covered in blossom.
4  Peach blossom in March, two people go, video.
5  The apple blossom is beginning to drop.
6  Hopefully the tree will produce some blossom next year.
7  She loved the spring, when the blossom was out.
8  The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossom filled the air.
9  Each large outer petal is curved and cup-shaped, yet each has its finishing point which makes the blossom starry.
10  Over the next few weeks, the plants' maiden blossoms will proliferate and form clusters, most noticeably at the branch tips.
11  Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
12  The pear trees are blossoming out early this year.
13  His career has blossomed and that has given him a certain elevated status.
14  That remote barren land has blossomed into rich granaries.
15  Google's choices are another breathtaking commitment in Hudson Square, a roughly 8.5 million-square-foot office market that's blossomed since a 2013 rezoning.