sprig

While shooting the film at an airport off the east coast of Panama, Herzog, in costume, spotted a man on the other side of a high fence holding a sprig of flowers in his hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

A smaller disc, nearby, is adorned with a sprig of schematic leaves.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Some crushed toasted almonds or another nut could be added for crunch, if you like, and/or a sprig of mint for garnish, if you’ve got any.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Yes, parsley can be used as a garnish, either in sprig form, or minced and sprinkled over a dish to give it a finishing pop of color and flavor.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

On its bottom hung two four-pronged hooks and at its tail was a sprig of thin yellow feathers.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Already, there are sprigs of green growth in that yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

Rihab’s uncle placed two sprigs of artificial cherry blossom atop the grave, for the two girls, and later someone else laid a wreath for a stranger buried beside them.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

Add a few sprigs of mint, if desired.

From Salon ● May 23, 2024

Any extra green sprigs that fall off or are cut from the tree, garlands or wreaths can be reused in vases or as table decorations.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Velia and Pita were pulling leaves and sprigs off the branches that were still to be made into stakes before piling them neatly next to the whittiers.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

We are invited to follow this enterprising urchin, in a sprigged greeny-blue tunic, striped shorts and flip-flops, as she scoots blithely on her own through an unnamed, generic contemporary metropolis.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

The putting surfaces were then sprigged with TifEagle Bermuda, the same strain of grass that had been on them for the past 10 years.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 1, 2020

Drought-tolerant Zeon zoysia grass was sprigged everywhere but on the greens, which are Seashore paspalum, a hedge against the possibility that pure groundwater might someday become brackish from the nearby Atlantic.

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 13, 2016

Woven with more primitive looms, early “imitation” shawls were relatively sober: plain or sprigged at the center and patterned only along the borders.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015

Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We’ve already done the back nine and tomorrow we’re sprigging the front nine,” said Oak Tree President and chief operating officer Tom Jones, who has been running golf courses for 40 years.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves."

From Time Magazine Archive

We think of it as the sprigging of a divine mantle cast over the June world.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

Classes in manual work of various kinds—woodwork, carpentry, applied drawing and building construction, lace and crochet making, needlework, dressmaking and embroidery, sprigging, hosiery and other such subjects, have been numerously and steadily attended.

From Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

A crowd of minor enthusiasts fostered such industries as sprigging, and there was one man who believed that the future prosperity of Ireland might be secured by teaching people to make dolls.

From Hyacinth by Birmingham, George A.