bud
Example Sentences
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While most plants only had one flower with many buds yet to open up, some were in full bloom with the sweet fragrant scent only the lily can provide.
From Los Angeles Times
“We try to have our tastings at 11 in the morning because there’s a science where you need to be needing lunch—your taste buds need to be ready to eat,” Hernandez said.
Back in America, the budding liberal intellectual’s name was showing up atop impressive essays and reviews in the New Yorker and Partisan Review.
In the late 1950s, a Lehman Brothers broker named Arthur L. Carter moved into an apartment in East Rockaway, New York, to raise his budding family.
She’d built an online following, initially by filming herself trying various coffee drinks, and had a budding business advising people and companies on social-media strategy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
