daisy
Example Sentences
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“Well, this is the first night Miss Myrt’s in her grave. Now Increase Whittlesey’s not the only teacher in the graveyard, pushing up daisies.”
From Literature
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“I see midnight blue, persian blue, cornflower, powder, and sapphire. And whites? There’s porcelain, daisy, and pearl.”
From Literature
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I could see the wild mountain flowers peeking from the tin cans—rooster heads, violets, and daisies.
From Literature
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And then “the daisy chain of correlated bets” will start to fracture.
From MarketWatch
Moving to her piano to bang out “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens, wearing a daisy in her hair that she picked in the cemetery earlier.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.