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Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom—the woman holds a sprig of white flowers in her right hand—hung in the gallery near masterpieces by Rubens and Rembrandt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Each antibiotic-free, half-turkey is “adorned with a disk of compound butter and a sprig of fresh rosemary,” according to TJ’s, and vacuum-sealed for optimal freshness.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

While shooting the film at an airport off the east coast of Panama, Herzog, in costume, spotted a man on the other side of a high fence holding a sprig of flowers in his hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

Four of the plants included in the analysis are already extinct, including the Guadalupe Island olive, which was sequenced using a dried sprig from 1875.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

She put the coin in her backpack along with the sprig of youth.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Catherine, dressed in a bottle-green and percher hat, presented the traditional sprigs of shamrock to officers, guardsmen and mascot Seamus, the Irish wolfhound, at the regiment's annual parade at Wellington Barracks.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Already, there are sprigs of green growth in that yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

Other fellow mint lovers recommended brewing fresh sprigs of mint with various herbal teas, like chamomile, hibiscus, valerian and rooibos.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

In a shower niche, she styled the upper two shelves with greenery and sprigs of flowers.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

As they neared the town of Easton, they began to pass shopping centers and development houses, little, low one-story ranchers with sprigs of new grass and one or two puny trees.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

We are invited to follow this enterprising urchin, in a sprigged greeny-blue tunic, striped shorts and flip-flops, as she scoots blithely on her own through an unnamed, generic contemporary metropolis.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

The putting surfaces were then sprigged with TifEagle Bermuda, the same strain of grass that had been on them for the past 10 years.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 1, 2020

Drought-tolerant Zeon zoysia grass was sprigged everywhere but on the greens, which are Seashore paspalum, a hedge against the possibility that pure groundwater might someday become brackish from the nearby Atlantic.

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 13, 2016

Woven with more primitive looms, early “imitation” shawls were relatively sober: plain or sprigged at the center and patterned only along the borders.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015

Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We’ve already done the back nine and tomorrow we’re sprigging the front nine,” said Oak Tree President and chief operating officer Tom Jones, who has been running golf courses for 40 years.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was sprigging fine muslin for a cap, and she wore large rings on the finger of her left hand, as well as her wedding ring on the other.

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Emma Marshall

A crowd of minor enthusiasts fostered such industries as sprigging, and there was one man who believed that the future prosperity of Ireland might be secured by teaching people to make dolls.

From Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham

Classes in manual work of various kinds—woodwork, carpentry, applied drawing and building construction, lace and crochet making, needlework, dressmaking and embroidery, sprigging, hosiery and other such subjects, have been numerously and steadily attended.

From Ireland In The New Century by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett