flamboyant

Example Sentences

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They have moss-covered gardens filled with orchids, hibiscus and flamboyants, which are illuminated at night by fireflies.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The flamboyants, I remember, were in full bloom.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

A mango grew in front of the house, and at the edge of the clearing were two flamboyants, twin trees, that challenged the gold of the cocoa-nuts with their scarlet flowers.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Truly, as he said, he was taking me behind the scenes: until at last, in a grove of flamboyants that wrapped the night with darker webbing, he set hand to a door.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John