verdancy

Example Sentences

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Would the sudden and glorious verdancy of television soon by clipped into submission by cryptic algorithms and shoved into an entrance-fee-demanding hot house where myriad species competed to the death for air and sun?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

“Liebesfrühling” turns the metaphor of spring inside out, locating in its verdancy memories that cause anguish, as Gerhaher’s voice rises to a pained pitch suffused with light.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

The fattiness provided by the emulsified yolk and oil cut some of that overwhelming verdancy present in some really herb-y sauces.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2021

This once-arid expanse is now coated with such bright-green verdancy that it reminded me of Ireland.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2015

Thus the term "adobe," the sun-dried brick, as applied to a man, signifies vealiness and verdancy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various