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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

She is holding a sprig from an olive tree.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

She sniffed them and blew on them before she matched the plants with the stones, putting a sprig of blue-gray mountain sage with the blue stone.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

Rihab’s uncle placed two sprigs of artificial cherry blossom atop the grave, for the two girls, and later someone else laid a wreath for a stranger buried beside them.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

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

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2023

Drape a piece of smoked salmon over the top, add a few capers and serve with lemon wedges and dill sprigs.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

Already I could see the Sally-Q parties in the living room: a little spinach quiche, lemonade with mint sprigs, and then the pitch: Practical can still be pretty.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

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

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

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