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potted

How to use potted in a sentence

For homes with a balcony or a deck, the winner is a potted Winter Gem Boxwood.

"Potted tongue," she exclaimed, dodging round the table, and lifting various covers.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

On their pretty bamboo trellises the potted morning-glory vines held out flowers as yet unopened.

THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA

Wilder drew forth half a bottle of milk, an open tin of potted ham and several portions of bread.

We arranged flowers everywhere, and bought potted plants at a little nursery hard by.

The house is decorated with palms, potted plants, flowers, and other foliage.

The trees should be potted in good rich soil, preferably the best garden loam.

Oblige us by considering the derivation of the word "sarcophagus," and see if it be not suggestive of potted meats.

A neighbor had sent in a potted white rose, full of buds and bloom, and over this the sisters quarreled.

SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLAND

She would be a kind of potted rose-tree under his arm, of which he must eventually tire.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985