be in flower
Example Sentences
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It had no right to be in flower now.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
The sweet peas will soon be in flower, the stocks, too, are showing buds.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
That active city-dweller, the Greenie, is found in almost every large eucalypt that happens to be in flower.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert
I went round and said good-bye to the lilacs, and told them to be in flower by the time I came back.
From Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) by Harraden, Beatrice
You'll see, Charles, the Louis d'ors will be in flower in a week's time; but it's all vinegar, it's covered with beetles."--"Oh,
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz
