glasshouse

Example Sentences

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They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

More than 40,000 plants have been decanted from the category A glasshouse ahead of a multi-million pound upgrade.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021

In the early 1990s, a group of eight hippies sealed themselves into a glasshouse dome in the Arizona desert, intending to replicate Earth’s ecosystems and live self-sufficiently.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2020

“Number eight, getting caught stealing grapes from the glasshouse in the kitchen garden. That’s another birching. ’Course we’re all too old now for birchings and for grape-stealing.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein