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How to use ambrosia in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Ambrosia means the food of the gods, thought to confer immortality. Example: “Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.”

Examples of ambrosia by meaning

nounAnything delightfully sweet and pleasing.

  • From the Anjou area of the Loire come the ambrosiae of Savennières, Bonnezeaux, and Quarts de Chaume.2001, Jamal A. Rayyis, Food & Wine Magazine’s Wine Guide 2002, New York, N.Y.: American Express Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, pages 112...

nounA plant of the genus Ambrosia.

  • While their pollen is not produced in the same profusion as that of the ragweeds (ambrosias), they give a marked hay-fever reaction which in some species is five times as active as that of the ragweed (ambrosia).1917 September, “Eastern and Western Hay Fever Plants”, in The Druggists Circular: A Practical Journal of Pharmacy and General Business...
  • Cowan, blue, for her ambrosiae.1943 July 11, Julia Durham, “Social and Personal: Blue Ribbons Awarded 22 Exhibitors; Red Ribbons To 13 In Flower Show”, in Kentucky...
  • As it does each year, about the fifteenth of August, plants of the group called ambrosiae spread their pollens to the wind and the misery begins.1967 August 17, Paul Key, “Here’s to Health: Help Available for Hay Feverites”, in The Daily Register, volume 90, number 37, Red Bank...

More sentences with ambrosia

  • Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.From the entry fifties
  • Generations of closely related beetles farm generations of cloned ambrosia fungus.1942, Gina Hamilton, Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (eBook), Lorenz Educational Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungus
  • All ambrosia beetles studied to date cultivate ascomycotan fungi: early colonizers of recently killed trees with poor wood digestion.2015 September 15, “New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales…. From the entry ascomycotan
  • Ambrosia beetles which are the first colonists of a dead tree must carry their ambrosia fungus with them to survive.2012, Gerard Meurant, Insect-Fungus Interactions, Academic Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungi
  • But it was good milk to drink and after crossing the six-week desert of milklessness, it tasted of ambrosia.2005, Hubbard Miller, William L. Spencer, Across This Silent Canvas, page 50. From the entry milklessness
  • From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.1996, Catherine Merriman, State of Desire, page 155. From the entry duff
  • In the daytime it would have been a nicely-arranged pyramid of honey crisps, granny smiths, red deliciouses, and ambrosias, but in the evening it resembles an archaeological dig.2022, Vanessa Krauss, “Evening”, in Thin, JMS Books LLC, →ISBN. From the entry red delicious
  • Some ambrosia fungi are only known from beetle galleries, and it is believed that those associations are obligate — the fungi cannot survive without the beetle farmers.1942, Gina Hamilton, Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (eBook), Lorenz Educational Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungus

Meaning of ambrosia

  1. noun The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
  2. noun The anointing-oil of the gods.
  3. noun Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.

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Questions about ambrosia in a sentence

How do you use ambrosia in a sentence?
Ambrosia is used as a noun. For example: “Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.”
What is a short sentence with ambrosia?
“Cowan, blue, for her ambrosiae.”
What does ambrosia mean?
Ambrosia means the food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.

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