greenery
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Rita thought it was ugly and outdated, so she’d covered it with greenery.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
More than a decade later, the restaurant has moved into a larger, airier space filled with greenery — and somehow, the bar keeps getting higher.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
We irrigate our lawns and other greenery, which is a boon to the beetles because they need moist landscapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The outside of the property comes complete with lush greenery, direct beach access, and advanced security.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Plants grew everywhere in large plastic pots, as if there wasn’t enough greenery outside.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.
From What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
Of these, indeed, the growth is luxuriant, and the path which leads down from the high-road to the cottage is cut through what might be called a grove of these leafy greeneries.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
I stared after her for a moment or more, watching the pretty brown dress flashing in and out of shadow among the ragged greeneries, shafts of sunshine now and then flashing upon her hair.
From The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington
Each, in deference to the long-established tradition of the neighbourhood, bore a garland of ferns and other greeneries, and each came armed with the necessary pin that was to work the spell.
From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil