greenery
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The city's Avenues programme is described by the local authority as the biggest transformation of city centre thoroughfares since Buchanan Street was pedestrianised back in the 1970s, adding greenery and cycle lanes throughout the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“There are concrete houses and structures taking the place of greenery and that’s also adding heat to the atmosphere,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
One of my favorite entertaining tricks is to think of bread the way a florist thinks about greenery.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Trump's post featured a 10-second video showing an overhead view of a building surrounded by greenery before an explosion erupts, sending up a cloud of smoke.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
The Great Pyramid shouldered eight hundred feet into the sky, from its huge square base to the lofty apex where the queen kept her private chambers, surrounded by greenery and fragrant pools.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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 Brazil, Angela
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 Coolidge, Susan
Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
At home they had had some lilac bushes and a row of peonies; here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.
From Samuel the Seeker by Sinclair, Upton
The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
