How to Use flowery in a Sentence

flowery

adjective
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  • The smell is at once lightly flowery and sweet; briny and wet.
    — Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2017
  • In a recent episode – their 44th – she is dressed in a string of pearls and a flowery blouse and begins the show with a sign of the cross.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2020
  • At 35 years old, Sara gleams in shimmery pink dress pants and a silky flowery top.
    — Mayra Cuevas, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • In tribute to Fruitland, Jones gave the holes fruity, flowery names.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • There was little flowery rhetoric and a minimum of the maudlin.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But the fresh, flowery scent of Fekkai's rosy suds and the gentle aroma that lingered throughout the day stuck with me.
    — Katheryn Erickson, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2014
  • The first-place finisher, Liz Shumpes, donned a large red hat with a flowery design on one side of the front brim.
    — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The wallpaper had a flowery pattern and there was some kind of plush rug in a dark color.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • There are nut flavors, but the liquid is more flowery and fruit forward.
    — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The triceratops, which grew to about 6 feet tall, was a herbivore that likely fed on sycamore leaves and flowery plants, Bastien said.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
  • The woman in the fur toque bustled by with her housekeeper, weighed down with a shopping bag full of flowery linens.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2018
  • She was shown walking along a leafy path, wearing a flowery dress, her hair newly styled.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • No flowery designs and sappy messages that have long been a staple of card aisles.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The Invite is a humor and light-verse contest, and so the Empress is not looking for flowery elegies.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • While that's quite the flowery way of explaining the importance of a good brow, the initial sentiment rings true.
    — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 8 May 2014
  • U.S. coach Bruce Arena looked at the flowery side of a surprise draw with Venezuela in an exhibition game over the weekend.
    — Drew Champlin, AL.com, 8 June 2017
  • Either way, a bright flowery sneaker is a great way to add some stylish psychedelic flair to any 2018 wardrobe.
    — Tyler Watamanuk, GQ, 24 May 2018
  • Runyon, who died in 1946, made up quite a bit of his flowery vernacular, and his prose can now be as opaque as the language of a lost tribe.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Along the long wall farther from the space’s stairs, the prints feature large areas of grassy green set off by dawn-sky purples and seeded with flowery yellow blobs.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The look is somewhere between artsy-craftsy and one of those flowery Snapchat filters.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Raise your hand if there was ever macaroni art or a flowery robe involved.
    — For Kroger, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2018
  • Head to Palais Montcalm, an outdoor ice-skating rink where the hip kids ice dance to glam-rock hits in flowery spandex leggings and leather jackets.
    — Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Colorful, flowery hats were as common as mint juleps at the legendary racetrack.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 6 May 2017
  • Use the petals in a fruit salad or put whole flowers at the bottom of a cake pan so that the cake, after baking, can be inverted to reveal a scented, flowery top.
    — Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Each of the products are designed to be unisex in both scent and packaging as well—no overly flowery or deeply woodsy notes here (plus most of the products are priced at under $20).
    — Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 11 July 2019
  • Plants, mulch and flowery bushes are being donated, but volunteers are needed to help with the project.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
  • Some flowery fragrances are too intense for my senses, and honestly make feel sick.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2015
  • Since that tragic scene, neighborhood residents have built a flowery shrine to the slain children outside the building.
    — Jill Smolowe, PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The addition of a flowery border provides a witty finishing touch to the image.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The language is flowery but sometimes the meaning is more subtextual.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 4 Dec. 2021

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