serrate
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The color pink gets its name from flowers in the genus Dianthus, commonly known as carnations or pinks, a reference to the serrate, or “pinked,” edges of the delicate, sweetly fragrant flowers.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022
Even in their day, these reference-point songs weren’t quite serrate, or scabrous — they were the globular middle.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
Or like a jagged, serrate viola through Shostakovich’s last, 15th, String Quartet – its abrasive intorsion like a barbed needle that speaks of desolation, exclusion from closure or repose.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2018
A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2012
Leaves coriaceous and persistent, lanceolate-oblong, narrowed at the base, minutely serrate, smooth and shining; pod pointed; seeds winged above.—Swamps near the coast, Va. and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Worse still, it's at odds with the serrated edges of Abrams' lyrics.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Much larger harvester ants stand nearby with their serrated jaws open, appearing vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026
By 10 a.m., servers at the Geneva location were carrying in armfuls of coffee cups, bowls, serrated knives and silverware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Once it’s cool to the touch, use a serrated knife to slice it horizontally, creating a top and bottom layer for your sandwich.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2026
Every Friday, he would bring in some bagels, a serrated knife, and cream cheese.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
When they got back in studio post-pandemic, they wanted to shake up their longstanding approach to tracking live instruments themselves, then serrating them digitally.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Another Palisades pitcher prepares a knuckleball by serrating stripes on the bottom, so that it looks almost like a basketball.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018
The speed of the work was dependent upon the operative, as he determined by his lever movement the instant at which the automatic serrating hammer should be released.
From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg
Leagues beyond the shadowy hills serrating the purple horizon, it was lost like a bad dream yielding to the light of day.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
The great beetling cliff towered far above, the jagged line of its summit serrating the zenith.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
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