flower child
Example Sentences
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Strong, best known as the feckless media heir of Succession, plays Jerry Rubin as a perpetually half-stoned flower child, a naïve Harpo to Hoffman’s smartass Groucho.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2020
Some early models had a flower vase, typically mounted on the dashboard as the perfect flower child accessory.
From Washington Times • Sep. 19, 2018
The New Zealand native grew up as a flower child nursed on classic rock and protest songs; Filler strums her guitar and says, “Remember this one?” as she leads brief singalongs.
From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2018
Or, like a latter-day flower child, fix their attitude problem with daisies.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018
That part I remember like it was yesterday—this little flower child, who barely knew how a doorknob worked, suddenly dropped in the middle of a society several centuries ahead of the one she’d just left.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
