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

All of the shamrock sent abroad from Ireland comes from a single glasshouse, Irish Plants International at Cools, near Baile an Sceilg in County Kerry.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023

“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

When they reach the height of the glasshouse, they are cut back and a new leader grows from the ground, McLaughlin said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 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