greens
Example Sentences
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The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
For golf courses this means the greens and tees can be irrigated but the fairways cannot.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The fast-casual salad chain on Thursday cut its outlook for the year, as the U.S.’s largest-ever cyclospora outbreak keeps diners away from lettuce and other uncooked leafy greens.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Seeing eggs, rice, yogurt in writing makes it easier to recognize what a bunch of greens or a basket of cucumbers could become—and easier to pivot when the ingredient I imagined isn’t there.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
There was so much to do—old Pru and the chickens and sheep to take care of and the spring, planting the corn and greens we needed for the tavern, and the cleaning and the cooking.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
