watering

Example Sentences

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To these flowers, you are simply “a clumsy pseudo-fungus carrying a mineral-rich watering can.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

INDIO, Calif. — On a quiet neighborhood corner across the street from a local watering hole, a roughly 40-foot shovel towers above the desert.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

"She made things that would be spectacular and shocking and didn't like the watering down of that."

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

From watering days that involve a few hundred plants to ordering the latest rare species, his home in Malvern, Worcestershire, has turned into a jungle.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Zipping my backpack closed, I dump the last of the water from my watering can onto the soil of my potted fern, grab my hoodie from the end of my bed, and head downstairs.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam