glasshouse

Example Sentences

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They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

This also involved heading into the glasshouse at night because water lily flowers only come out in the dark.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2022

In the cultivation of friendships, the backroom glasshouse is the place to be.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2018

“Number eight, getting caught stealing grapes from the glasshouse in the kitchen garden. That’s another birching. ’Course we’re all too old now for birchings and for grape-stealing.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein