topiary
Example Sentences
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We enter a garden filled with tiny topiaries and concrete animals, dodge a child holding a birthday balloon, and a heavenly vanilla breeze moves out from a bakeshop and toward me like a small warhead.
From Washington Post
Hollies can be pruned into topiary or bonsai, kept a tidy size in containers or pruned in the Japanese style into the rounded curves of boulders.
From Seattle Times
Inside the hedges and beyond, theirs is a world studded with boxwood globes and topiary, from oversized muffins to giant green wedding cakes.
From Seattle Times
The installations will be connected by a snorkel trail made from OMA-designed shapes that fit together like Legos and act as a coral topiary.
From New York Times
In a nod to his signature topiary dresses, Valli sent out a shimmery, silver sequined body suit with rings of white ostrich feathers around the legs.
From Reuters
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