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The fragrant flower scape — which resembles a big, flattened pink pine cone — lasts for as long as six months.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
Two performers led the charge, wheeling a painted banner bearing the name Jovens do Prenda set against a desert scape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
Otherwise as Tussilago.—Perennial woolly herbs, with the leaves all from the rootstock, white-woolly beneath, the scape with sheathing scaly bracts, bearing heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers, in a corymb.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
They had scaped from the Spanish servise in Flanders with Syr William Stanley.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by John Dee
But the Common Prayer Book had the fate of St. Paul; for when it had scaped the storms of the Roman See, yet a viper sprung out of Queen Mary's fires, &c.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
His page, Ascanio, is at the grate, To know, from him, how you had scaped this danger; And brings with him those habits— Soph.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
But I, who ought not to have lived, though I have scaped destiny, shall pass a bitter life; I but now perceive.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H. R. Playtner
