flowery

Example Sentences

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Blume didn’t begin to try to write professionally until she was a married mother of two and some have criticized her work for not being as flowery and polished as others’.

From Los Angeles Times

It had a flowery print of roses and looked like a summer dress.

From Literature

Mr. Mauch’s prose is not flowery, but direct, single-minded and determined, like the man himself.

From The Wall Street Journal

“She is yonder, by the river’s edge,” replied Magic, a little too flowery in my opinion.

From Literature

He took a final steadying breath and walked past a group of women in flowery skirts and several college-aged kids who looked like they hadn’t slept in days.

From Literature