How to Use florid in a Sentence

florid

adjective
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  • The joyfully florid jumble that is the top of the Adolphus.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
  • For all the florid naming, the beers themselves seemed restrained, even polite, on the palate.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In one, people read a florid passage about trees being cut down.
    — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The thing that sometimes got lost with Tom Wolfe, with his white suits and florid style--that gift for the inimitable phrase--was the strength of his reporting.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 15 May 2018
  • Opposite him was a bible verse written in florid script.
    — Tom Hanks, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The one exception is for those with a very red, florid face; this shade emphasizes the redness.
    — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Bruce Mulholland, that florid caricature, is the butt of the joke.
    — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Now that the rest of menswear is tilting in a florid direction—crocodile skins! vicuña coats!
    — Molly Young, GQ, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Instead of whiskey, we’d be fueled by a cocktail of righteousness and florid legalese.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • Long or short, soft or loud, florid or dry, funny or serious — each prison column lands with a thud.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And there’s no sign of a florid inscription that was supposedly carved into the box’s side.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For years, the world looked to Coco Chanel for florid descriptions of what is or is not luxurious.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Eighty years later, the spread of railways led to a construction free-for-all in the suburbs, as well as the florid era of Victorian house names.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2020
  • By contrast, in the painting’s warm, dusky hues, Napoleon is a florid pillar of unperturbed, even heroic strength.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Few places better reflect the florid diversity of language — and its fragility — than the forests of Brazil.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • When embracing winter whites from the neck down, florid notes worn above strikes an eye-catching balance—at least in the world of Jennifer Lopez.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Browne was inside in an airy rehearsal room with florid crown moldings and softly glowing globe lights.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • John was also famous for never letting clarity get in the way of florid prose.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Here Weiss’ florid pianism, drummer Fludas’ fat downbeats and bassist Vinsel’s sizable tone made for the most vivid statement of the show.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • Not the florid English style, but the stories themselves, the imagination behind them.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In Spanish home design, the prominence of courtyards, patios, and florid gate designs has been passed down for centuries, Vázquez said.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • And yet the language only becomes more florid, even Shakespearean.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But thanks to a few stars who are loyal to florid fingertips, nail art is never going to disappear.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Millet does not, as her younger self might have, gleefully inhabit the florid mind of a MAGA voter.
    — Christine Smallwood, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The series is chock-full of ball sequences, which are lively and colorful—and emceed with a perfect florid purr by Billy Porter.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 30 May 2018
  • Hausmann’s rendition seemed valid, if less florid than the Kronos’s version.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The taste inspires the kind of florid language usually reserved for a vintage wine: chalky, sweet, vegetal.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The film opens with Cyrano disrupting a crass play and running the lead actors off the set in a fit of pique, leading to a handful of duels and plenty of florid dialogue.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Of the traditional Big Three newscasts, his is invariably the most purple--florid where Brokaw is terse and Jennings languid.
    — Tom Carson, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
  • Males also sport extremely colorful rear-ends, and will shake a florid array of blues, purples, golds and reds in a quest to woo potential mates.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 22 May 2019

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