laurel

Example Sentences

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O'Neill has confirmed she has accepted an invitation and will lay a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall on Sunday in her role as first minister.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

Returning to the trail, with its soothing chorus of crickets, velvety laurel sumac shrubs and feathery wild grasses, something inside me loosened.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

On 1 July 2002 he laid a laurel wreath at the monument, hours ahead of the main council ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

O'Neill has confirmed she has accepted an invitation and she will lay a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph on Sunday in her role as first minister.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

Peonies and flag lilies and poppies were blooming in people’s yards, and roses and sweet William, mountain laurel and bleeding heart.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns