How To Use Floral In A Sentence

Roller blinds offer a good deal of scope through colour and fabric combinations, from floral patterns to bold geometric prints.
After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
An eye-catching floral tribute to England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson helped Doncaster to shine in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition.
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
There's more to the field and hedgerow trend than pretty florals. Times, Sunday Times

Fracas, that mother of all big floral scents, the strange, kinky Diva Tubereuse Criminelle, and the lustrously beautiful Carnal Flower. Archive 2007-07-01
Floral tributes were placed against the garden railings. Times, Sunday Times
Designers use floral in monotones with unusual checks and stripes, silky and lustrous finishes, transparence and illusion placements with a hint of skin in the collection.
Zilkha did however produce a graceful match of polka dots and floral patterns in drop-waist dresses which will make for a very wearable ensemble when the sun comes back next spring.
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
A great all-round cleanser that has a very pleasant floral smell. The Sun
There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
Where vegetation composition is altered and floral richness threatened, the results will ultimately be felt by us all.
He said floral tributes had been put at the front door to the flat, including one by a girl who seemed quite distraught.
Some of the resulting works clearly echo organic, generally floral, motifs such as Apsaras, whose swelling blue and green quatrefoils swirl out from a central node.
There were unbelievable floral exhibits and hanging baskets of enormous size and abundant in colour.
Try the paisley floral pink, lime and mocha print in an elegant strappy swimsuit or a stripe bikini with ruched side pants.
I've generally been a lover of orientals and fruity-fresh scents, eschewing white florals and anything that smelled powdery or "old ladyish". Boadicea Pure and Benefit Laugh with Me Lee Lee
The floral meristems are formed acropetally and are initiated on the periphery of the inflorescence meristem, being protected by bracts.
Get up early and you can watch frenetic flower auctions or meander through the flower gallery while enjoying the designer floral arrangements. The Sun
Lemon Balm Lemon or bee balm is an Old World species, Melissa officinalis, distinguished by its mixture of citrusy and floral terpenes citronellal and -ol, citral, geraniol. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The armchair's densely carved scallops and shellwork, rosebuds, floral bouquets, and cartouche-shaped back are loosely based on the rococo style as reinterpreted in French pattern books of the mid-nineteenth century.
There were carpets with woven scenes of hunts and landscapes or just florals.
Fill nine small containers, such as flowerpots or tea cups, with presoaked floral loam.
Her floral dress was certainly a safe choice. The Sun
The stairs were carpeted with a brown and blue floral design.
Deep burgundy and maroon remain the height of floral chic. Times, Sunday Times
The calyx, the subtending bracts and the two prophylls bear groups of extrafloral nectaries (single peltate trichomes).
A broad investigation was initiated into the floral development of 30 taxa out of 15 tribes, focussing on the initiation of bracteoles and on the sequence of sepal initiation.
Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores (block-printed and painted cotton bedcovers) imported from India.
There is no better place to introduce florals than a summer wedding. Times, Sunday Times
This is Heartbeat meets The Royal meets Where the Heart Is, set in the quaint 1950s Northern Englandshire of classic motorbikes ridden by be-goggled simpletons with wholesome wives dressed in floral pinnies.
Go for plain solids or patterns that fit with fall themes, like floral or leaf patterns.
In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
Inside the villa are lovely fireplaces, as well as lanterns and tiles with floral patterns in bas-relief.
The bed was a small singular made out of dark pinewood, and the cover was a floral print design.
I abandoned my shirt for my floral bikini top and my little white tennis shoes for sandals.
There is Samsara, with it's minimalistic yet rich melange of jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla; Songes, shamelessly floral through and through with jasmine, frangipanni and powdery-sweet vanilla foundation; or Ormonde Jayne's airy and light rendition of Frangipanni Absolute. Archive 2008-06-01
Such quirky little blooms would be lost in the floral abundance of spring or summer, but in midwinter they are dazzling, standing out against snowy backdrops or the dark needles of evergreens.
They looked at floral tributes and about 40 cuddly toys and teddy bears left by locals. The Sun
If you're looking for trendy patterns, go for paisley, floral, plaid, checks, and herringbone.
The town will be gaily decorated with window boxes, flower beds and floral arrangements - so expect Bagenalstown to be a riot of flowers on Sunday.
You will be amazed at the beauty and crispness of this hand carved wood floral rose wreath.
The Warp Floral Container line is a unique concept in floral arranging, designed and patented by Kimberly Manne. Flower Containers by Warp Designs
Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Suppression of the androecium as a teratological occurrence has been most frequently noticed in the following plants, omitting members of those families whose floral construction is normally incomplete in the majority of instances, and exclusive also of cases of substitution. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Appropriate subject matter for art could include pastoral scenes, landscapes, florals or anything else that is calming and appealing.
I always got the tagetes from this, I wonder what it's like in the older stuff, with the florals fading out. Long Lost Perfumes: Niki de Saint Phalle
With Phoebe's help, she'd chosen a floral slip dress with a low neckline and spaghetti straps.
Two bronze candle holders in the center flanked a floral piece.
The front was covered with decorations, including mock-ups of a throne and floral crown, window-sill models of Coronation regalia and the Royal coach, coloured lights and Royal portraits.
Most of the geometer moths captured were in floral lure traps, while both species of Plusiinae were trapped exclusively in floral lure traps.
Also very summery are the whitewashed pastel cotton pants, bold cotton stripes and abstract floral prints and pinstripes on denim, cotton satin and viscose stretch fabrics.
This year she will be making floral arrangements, which will serve as place settings and decorations.
They are often heavily embellished with embroidery, beadwork, and hand painted floral designs.
After prayers at the graveside, she was laid to rest under a carpet of floral tributes as many people offered their sympathies with the family.
Family photographs cover various side tables perched at the end of faintly floral sofas. Times, Sunday Times
Blending green, rooty vetiver and languid exotic flowers fagraea, tiare, ylang-ylang, the perfumer achieved a striking yang-yin, darkness-light sort of contrast of earthy, practically dirty and creamy-floral notes. Archive 2009-01-01
Using the tilt of the Sixaxis, you stir the petal of a flower on the breeze, and as you touch other opening blooms on your way, your single pale curl is joined by gradually more colorful petals, eventually assembling the sort of floral cloud seen in artful visions of springtime cherry blossom breezes. Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind
The brocade incorporates Chinese symbols such as the dragon, fusing Islamic motifs like vine and floral patterns with a distinctly Far-Eastern style.
It may be suggested that saponin is thus a constructive element in developing the plant from the multiplicity of floral elements to the cephalization of those organs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
It is composed of a single floral head within a diamond framework flanked by four outwardly curling leaves.
While shopping malls aren't known for their creative floral displays, these plants certainly won't look as fake and plasticky in your home as they do in the food court.
I bought the most lovely soft, pink, floral cotton for the body of the dress and white batiste for the collar. The Beautiful, Soft, Flowing, Modest, Clothing Depicted in the Art of Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens (1823-1906)
She is also plagued by bad dreams featuring an unknown woman in a floral dress. Times, Sunday Times
This region provides habitat for considerable floral and faunal species diversity, many of which taxa are endemic. Talamancan montane forests
Its crisp white walls are offset with geometric textiles and floral floor tiles, and the pool has sea views. Times, Sunday Times
It is composed of a single floral head within a diamond framework flanked by four outwardly curling leaves.
Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar.
Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
Featuring four increasing layers of illusion netting and a flounced chapel length train, this gown is beautified by an all over floral embroidered and beaded pattern.
Yet short floral spurs are not necessarily a reproductive disadvantage.
This weekend I stood looking in the mirror wearing a floaty floral dress. The Sun
The print is floral with shades of green, brown, and mauve on a cream background.
In the chilled bulb, the floral stem is visible in the centre of the bulb, while the leaves and flower have grown outside the sensitive volume of the detection coil.
This bounces out of the glass with a gentle perfume, appley fruit and floral notes. Times, Sunday Times
Recent runways and magazine spreads have featured luscious florals from Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix and Prada.
We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
The dress combines stylish lines with an attractive floral print for a classically feminine look.
The star of the E4 reality show wears the floral frocks with ease. The Sun
Delivery vans packed with bouquets also arrived to add to the floral carpet outside the church, on which adults and children alike also laid cuddly toys.
The dress combines stylish lines with an attractive floral print for a classically feminine look.
The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
The lush colour and floral background interact with the figure in homage to another individual who impressed Argaw with his concern for the natural environment.
The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
Graphic tropical prints are a cool take on the trend for floral designs. The Sun
A self-described "Missoni junkie," Mr. Jones lauded the family for their designs characterized by a "kaleidoscope of bold hues, zigzags, stripes, waves, flames, geometric patchworks and floral jacquards. Mary Hall: The Rodeo Walk of Style Welcomes Iman and Missoni
Uzbek nan is a somewhat flat bread, round in shape with a depressed middle often with a floral impression design. How could I forget the NAN?!?
Among the must-have items from the Paris / Milan catwalks were floral summer dresses and separates, dirndls, halter necks and twin-sets, which were popular in the 1950s.
This wine has a brilliant, bright straw color with a delightful nose that first attracts with a thick, yeasty flavor before giving way to a fresh, mineral, floral note. Drinking Now
The scent, a fruity-floral blend of Fuji apple, white peach nectar and bergamot, is balanced with white flowers and has base notes of amber, blonde woods and warm sand — designed to capture the come-hither spirit of the 1940s actress. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Releases Her 10th Celebrity Fragrance
Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Punches and coggles were used to apply bands of decoration such as circles, stars, floral emblems, and other motifs.
Brown, the primary colour of bulldust, described her culture shock at arriving in Brisbane to be confronted by suntanned Queenslanders who look like crustaceans decked out in floral prints and mirror sunglasses…
Which is what makes the floral dress a blooming fabulous approach to dressing in winter. Times, Sunday Times
If you're looking for trendy patterns, go for paisley, floral, plaid, checks, and herringbone.
I tried on a floral two-piece which made me look like an oversized napkin in a serviette ring.
Fabrics varied, and included calendared or glazed fabrics of wool, plain or floral printed calicos and muslins, and glazed chintz monochrome or polychrome prints.
Nancy Gangi captured this rare and excellent pic of a coydog hunting in a field near Floral City, Florida.
When the surf's up, it's time to slip into tropical floral print pieces in delicious chocolate and turquoise.
Floral and grapey aromas take on a slight apricot and citrus edge before offering dry to off-dry flavours of fresh firm apricots with an orangey citrus tang and earthiness on the finish.
Here, the 100 percent cotton floral is fashioned into a loose-fitting slipcover.
Ripe, floral peachy aromas with distant soft buttery scents offers up lemon tinged almond flavours that roll on to a lingering mineral edge on the finish.
The major aroma components in black pepper the terpenes pinene, sabinene, limonene, caryophyllene, linalool create an overall impression that is fresh, citrusy, woody, warm, and floral. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Decoration could be chased or applied, such as borders of silver or gold, or floral swags, laurel wreaths, and stylized scrolls in varicolored gold.
Lime's sour juice and tropical, floral flavour complete it. Times, Sunday Times
I loved the picture of the mother and daughter in floral prints! April Victoria, 1990
He was dressed in floral shorts and had a shaven head. The Times Literary Supplement
The show featured a bouquet of oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels and a mix of colorful springtime florals and landscapes.
The theme of ‘charming and hippie’ is highlighted in floral designs and flounces which go together with boots and wide waistbelts.
The tendency to petalification is, moreover, greater among those plants which have their floral elements arranged in spiral series, than among those where the verticillate arrangement exists; and in any given flower, if the stamens are spirally arranged while the carpels are grouped in whorls, the former will be more liable to petalody than the latter, and _vice versâ_. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
This weekend I stood looking in the mirror wearing a floaty floral dress. The Sun
France had maintained a longstanding tradition of floral decoration in art and manuscript illumination since the Middle Ages.
Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
Many featured floral and botanical patterns, often the lily or the acanthus leaf.
Sometimes called floral or border spades, they're simply scaled-down versions of the garden spade.
Then, what can only be described as a sea of flowers, was laid all around, each floral tribute reverently placed by a member of the Civil Defence.
The town will be decorated with window boxes, flower beds and floral arrangements, including the Royal Oak Bridge, Market Square and the river frontage.
Anyone driving down Shaw Road this summer might have been taken aback by a dazzling floral display.
It's sexy and dark, with a lingering floral overtone and a subtle animality that will undoubtedly prompt people to ask "Mmm, what are you wearing? All I Want for Christmas...
There were no floral offerings at the ceremony, with the exception of a single red rose.
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
‘Fashionably Floral’ is billed as a unique harmonisation of the drama and exotica of Japanese freestyle flower arrangements.
In association with Bagenalstown Floral Festival, the group is hoping to exhibit the work of Carlow artists in all media, known and unknown.
The star of the E4 reality show wears the floral frocks with ease. The Sun
Climbing into an empty bed, Jim turns off the sidelight and watches the shadows huddling against the floral wallpaper.
Stitched with colorful silk threads on a wool ground, primarily in cross-stitch, it features an acorn and carnation border, three wide floral bands, and averse.
The Floral Book collection features delicate patterns based on romantic designs in old-fashioned tones of primrose, lavender and rose.
In flowers, both genes are expressed throughout inflorescence and floral meristems and in developing organ primordia.
The long lasting floral bunches with sparkling waxy bracts in different shades of pink, and the yellow margined red corolla are best suited for cut flowers.
The pieces are completely made in ceramics by Bosa, and are available both in full colour and embellished by decoration in black or platinum floral photo patterns. The fool on the Hill by Luca Nichetto
The wedding bill will include gilt-edged invites, $300,000 floral displays and a 10-tier cake costing $10,000.
Its crisp white walls are offset with geometric textiles and floral floor tiles, and the pool has sea views. Times, Sunday Times
Also known as hydrosols, floral waters are the condensation that is collected after plants are steamed to extract their essential oils.
There is no better place to introduce florals than a summer wedding. Times, Sunday Times
After the minute's silence, passengers moved to inspect the books of condolence which were placed on a table decorated with a floral arrangement of white roses, daisies and lilies.
Production of one class of product, woody decorative florals, is being tested in several agroforestry configurations.
It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness.
Instead of leaves, a floral meristem gives rise in sequence to sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels.
Once upon a time, the door had been inscribed with several lovely characters and a beautiful floral design encompassed the doorway.
More floral tributes were laid on Monday by her friends, who approached the site linking arms.
Green textured background showing butterfly and floral artwork details.
Admirers of Chawla paid floral tributes to her.
Though color gets top billing, many spring bulbs also introduce the season's first floral fragrance, an attribute that's increasingly important to American gardeners.
If you are too scared to rock the groupie look, go for hippy florals over jeans or leggings. The Sun
The tables are large, the wicker chairs are padded and comfortable and the service personnel were happy, dressed in bright floral outfits.
The plastic tablecloths with gorgeous floral prints and the aroma and smoke from the roast mutton kebabs combine to make you feel this is an echt Xinjiang restaurant.
That's when a huge floral arrangement arrived. Christianity Today
Present plant communities are evidently ephemeral aggregations controlled by intersecting gradients of floral change.
Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar.
At flowering, the fungus grows through the floral tissue and forms masses of spores in place of healthy seed.
Finally, in the Erechtheum the upper part or necking of the shaft is enriched with an exquisitely wrought band of floral ornament, the so-called honeysuckle pattern. A History of Greek Art
Floral prints in combination with light, natural fibres like chiffon, silk and linen underscore this young and natural look.
Floral artists form perfect nosegays with bundled stems wrapped and tied in raffia ribbons.
When the plants in which these occurrences happen most frequently are compared together, it may be seen that partial or entire suppression of the floral envelopes, calyx, and corolla, is far more commonly met with in the polypetalous and hypogynous groups than in the gamopetalous or epigynous series. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The only floral tribute was a heart made of his favourite flowers, Sweet Williams, and a posy of white roses to represent Yorkshire.
Pretty bow and lace details mix with playful florals, cherry prints, stripes and polka dot mesh.
Beautiful floral prints, one with large tulips on it, and blue-and-white swirly prints like the ocean, and if you like geometrics, they had those too. Home Living
Additionally, the floral and fruity red appellations Chinon and Bourgueil are produced from the Cabernet Franc grown in the region, with Chinon being the most common red wine of the whole valley.
Pictured: The sleeveless floral "frill" dress for Spring 2011 by DKNY. Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week DKNY Spring 2011 Collection: Big Apple of My Eye
These rewards include pseudopollen, wax or a viscid, resinous material secreted by the labellum and floral nectar.
The floral design pairs beautifully with tableware in complementary solid colours. Times, Sunday Times
In the glass it is pale straw yellow; on the nose it is softly floral.
Now, there was in Claremorris at that time a man, whose name escapes me, that was famous for the floral displays in his garden.
Like most labiates, thyme is an aromatic plant with glandular trichomes on the leaves and floral parts contain monoterpenoid essential oils.
She engraved the ring in a floral pattern.
One can choose from an array of bed or cushion covers available in cotton or silk satins in floral motifs in pastels.
Work winter florals into your wardrobe with a pencil skirt. Times, Sunday Times
These usually consist of large, naturalistic floral garlands or medallions set against an open or sparsely decorated field.
About this collection: Romantic, exotic, glamorous or abstract: thisspring's floral patterns provide an injection of creativity and a loveof fashion into your wardrobe.
A total of 75 taxa were examined for floral papillae and/or trichomes using light microscopy and/or low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy.
They swiftly conclude that the floral prints are not for them and head for the exit. Times, Sunday Times
Natural flavours and aromas such as floral, fruit, honey and chocolate are better than flavours that come from mistakes made during drying, such as mustiness or moldiness. Can coffee wreck your marriage?
This small initial collection of four designs features floral, bird and garden motifs. Times, Sunday Times
Body chains are the new floral headband. Times, Sunday Times
These are decorated with the floral emblems of Australia and Greece, the wattle and the olive.
Sections devoted to elaborately beaded, exquisitely embroidered and sleekly tailored garments in black and white, red, greige (Armani's trademark, a subtle mixture of grey and beige) or romantic floral prints, are accompanied by text comparing them to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Rothko and Matisse.
While most floral fragrances just hint at cool, and vice versa, this one is an ambi-sexual, daringly balanced mix of sweet and cool. March 2008
Alongside finger sandwiches and scones, there will be floral pastries served with rosé champagne. Times, Sunday Times
A very colorful barbotine pitcher from the earthenware majolica factory of Monaco with floral motifs and a snake handle.
Cotton floral leggings with elasticated waist, ￡23.90, XS-L from Benetton.
On the white wine front, Argentina's most distinctive grape is torrontes, which makes a delicate, floral wine reminiscent of dry muscat and Gewürztraminer with much lighter body.
Continually inspired by nature, Burton decorated many screens with floral sprays and more stylized organic designs.
These rebloomers are wonderful in floral bouquets where they perfume an entire room.
The upper part of the garden is taken up with a striking parterre, in which a floral arch surrounds a young monkey-puzzle tree, and neat gravel paths are surrounded by beds of flowers.
Floral tributes perfume the cool morning air and the atmosphere is drunk with sweetness.
This small initial collection of four designs features floral, bird and garden motifs. Times, Sunday Times
Floral and herbal notes lingered on the finish, reminiscent of a fine Japanese green tea, alongside a sugariness closer to refined sugar or syrup rather than the usual caramel/toffee flavour.
She was regal in a rose-coloured, floral-accented outfit, and took the audience on a journey through moods of despair and pain to the joy of liberation.
Work fresh floral prints with bright accessories. The Sun
Its bright, lactonic floralcy is boosted by the use of terpeneless patchouli sourced from Laboratoires Monique Rémy now owned by International Flavors and Fragrances. Letter from a Perfumer
Some men cried while other held up floral tributes. Times, Sunday Times
This perfect summer apéritif has a light, floral, grapey, hedgerow scent and verdant grassy palate. Times, Sunday Times
Locals left touching floral tributes outside the house yesterday. The Sun
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Covering the cushions in plaid can give it a look that appeals to everyone, if there are objections to floral prints. Honoring the Home

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