Example Sentences

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Which is to say: Lilacs are long-lived and tough — way tougher than this city girl in the wilderness.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

And he wrote of the mental and emotional toll of loss and the witnessing of death, as in this passage from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd":

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2022

Connery made the first of many appearances as a film extra in the 1954 movie, Lilacs in the Spring.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2020

In 1996, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his song cycle “Lilacs,” set to stanzas from Walt Whitman’s poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2018

Lilacs bloom and make the air sweet, and then fade.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White