creeping plant

Example Sentences

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Nothing was too insignificant for Frigg to ask, save only the mistletoe, a creeping plant that lives on other trees.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Two halves of a cocoanut shell hung from the top of the window with a curious little creeping plant growing in them, and sending long, hanging tendrils down over the sides.

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

Red nightshade berries—not the deadly nightshade, but the ‘bitter-sweet’—hang sullenly among the bushes where this creeping plant has trailed over them.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

The first really creeping plant we have had to notice.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

You see," replied his wife, winding her arm round his like a tender creeping plant round a sturdy oak, "if you slay, I must die also.

From The Day of Wrath by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)