blossom
Example Sentences
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At an age when most people were retired—or worse—he was still breeding new hybrids, knowing full well that they wouldn’t blossom for years.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The orange blossom had already become the state flower in 1909, and, by 1967, a year after McPhee’s opus, the orange was the state fruit.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
As the author shows, flowers are still making and remaking our world today, one enticing blossom at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The short video posts on platforms like TikTok show how even just the words "Tokyo, Japan" with a cherry blossom emoji can make an otherwise banal street scene more appealing for some users.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
The cherry blossom trees at the end of my parents’ street in Salem were in full bloom.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Vocabulary lists containing blossom
The Vernal Vocabulary of Spring
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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