green fingers
Example Sentences
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Appropriately for a goalkeeper, Middleton-Patel has green fingers, with tomato plants her favourites.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
Then in late June, the flowers finally gave way to a mass of curled green fingers: the unmistakable shape of bananas in a bunch.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
But Shreim wasn't born with green fingers: he learned how to set up greenhouses by watching YouTube videos and has gathered tips and tricks from other farmers.
From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2022
“Bob Pirie is a man with green fingers who knows how to make money,” David de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild bank in Paris, said at the time.
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2015
I remember the five-fingered ferns growing under little waterfalls, bobbing their green fingers as the droplets struck them.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
