sprig

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

Garnish with a sprig or two of watercress or arugula.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025

A smaller disc, nearby, is adorned with a sprig of schematic leaves.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Some crushed toasted almonds or another nut could be added for crunch, if you like, and/or a sprig of mint for garnish, if you’ve got any.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

I fished the one cup I owned out of the knapsack and poured in hot water and a spoonful of sugar from my supplies, plus a sprig of mint from Mama’s window box.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

The first design was composed of jewel-toned swirls dotted with hand-drawn holly sprigs and coffee beans.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2023

At Pierre Frey, artist Veronique Villaret cut out simple paper sprigs of Pacific Island vegetation to create a joyful, colorful pattern she calls “Rangiroa.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

I cooked them a special candlelit dinner, complete with blackberries and cilantro sprigs as garnishes, and rice molded to the shape of an upside-down cup like I’d seen in a magazine.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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 Marshall, Emma

We think of it as the sprigging of a divine mantle cast over the June world.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

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 Birmingham, George A.