Example Sentences

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Lilacs begin flowering in late April and into May; the season is intoxicating but fleeting.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

And he wrote of the mental and emotional toll of loss and the witnessing of death, as in this passage from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd":

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2022

Connery made the first of many appearances as a film extra in the 1954 movie, Lilacs in the Spring.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2020

In 1996, Dr. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for “Lilacs,” a commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra that set portions of Walt Whitman’s Lincoln elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

Lilacs bloomed in April and fruit ripened on the vine.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller