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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

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

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 pointed her finger at me and said, “She wiped out every sprig of my generations—she hates me so. Wiped out each one but JimmyTrotter.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Blueberries are especially good this way, tumbled with honey, orange zest and a few sprigs of thyme until they become jammy and fragrant.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

A grapevine, manzanita or eucalyptus wreath makes a year-round framework for temporal additions like holly sprigs in December, followed by forsythia or pussy willows in March.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

The wonton soup smells wonderful with delicate sprigs of cilantro floating on top.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

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

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

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

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