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How to use bloomer in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Bloomer means an ironworker. Example: “She was a late bloomer.”

Examples of bloomer by meaning

nounA large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.

  • His prize bloomer was pulled in Hoboken before three witnesses1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
  • "You know," pursued Reggie seriously, "I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress
  • That was the only major bloomer in scientific judgment Rutherford ever made.1959, Charles Percy Snow, The Two Cultures

nounOne who blooms, matures, or develops.

  • She was a late bloomer.

nounA reform costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the ankles, and often a...

  • Unlike other women landing from the steamers, she was neither short-skirted nor bloomer-clad.1912 October, Jack London, “The Taste of the Meat”, in Smoke Bellew, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co, →OCLC

More sentences with bloomer

  • By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.From the entry perpetual
  • I read of vespertine flowers, night bloomers like four o'clocks, opening like mouths in evening prayer.2008, Pat Mora, House of Houses, page 9. From the entry vespertine
  • That is, if one or both parents or other relatives were also late bloomers.2003, Kathy McCoy, Charles Wibbelsman, Growing and Changing, Penguin, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry late bloomer
  • A josser like myself from the backwoods of Canada would be making all sorts of bloomers.1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys. From the entry josser
  • With her bloomers still round her ankles Auntie Flip scampered sideways like a crab back to the living room.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry scuttle
  • Although Miss Kim is often described as semidwarf, this popular late bloomer can become 9 or 10 feet tall.2008 April 17, Leslie Land, “Veggies in the Shade”, in New York Times. From the entry semidwarf
  • Ladies’ grey flannelette bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry bloomers
  • Bathing Suit of Brilliantine in Navy Blue and Black, trimmed with white mohair braid and buttons (no bloomers).1916 June 11, The New York Times, number 112. From the entry brilliantine
  • These come often before the late bloomers are gone and while the migratory birds are still in the piney woods.1903, Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain. From the entry late bloomer
  • Then maybe asexuals wouldn't face negative responses ("You're a late bloomer" or You haven't met the right person" etc.) when they come out to allos.2021, "Will", quoted in "Member Highlight: Multi-Member Question And Answer", AVENues Newsletter, January-March 2021, page 19. From the entry allo
  • By watching where the snow melted first, I discovered warmer spots that I knew would be possible locations for late-winter bloomers or borderline hardy plants.2012, David L. Culp, The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, Timber Press, page 503. From the entry hardy
  • Collins herself to be wearing what I should imagine are meant to be canion and hose, rather than bloomers as you describe them.2011, Charlotte Bingham, Debutantes: (Debutantes: 1): a delightful and stylish saga focusing on the battle for love, power, money and…. From the entry canion
  • I have a special fondness for all late summer bloomers since so many gardens, and all the fancy perennial gardens, have shot their wad by then.2004, Stephen Goodwin, Breaking Her Fall, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry shoot one's wad
  • Now, Horn & Udell are responsible for the bloomers your small daughter wears under her play frock, in place of the troublesome and extravagant petticoat of the old days.1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself. From the entry bloomers

Meaning of bloomer

  1. noun An ironworker.
  2. noun A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.
  3. noun A circular loaf of white bread.

Full definition of bloomer

Questions about bloomer in a sentence

How do you use bloomer in a sentence?
Bloomer is used as a noun. For example: “She was a late bloomer.”
What is a short sentence with bloomer?
“She was a late bloomer.”
What does bloomer mean?
Bloomer means an ironworker.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloomer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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