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How to use blossom in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Blossom means a flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers. Example: “The blossom has come early this year.”

Examples of blossom by meaning

nounA flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.

  • The blossom has come early this year.

nounThe state or season of producing such flowers.

  • The orchard is in blossom.

verbTo begin to thrive or flourish.

  • Eswatini enjoys a blossoming diplomatic tie with Taiwan — currently the East Asian country’s only ally in Africa.2021 June 29, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Officials deny King of Eswatini – Africa’s lone absolute monarch – has fled”, in CNN

More sentences with blossom

  • Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.From the entry pull off
  • The new type of mechanical thinner allowed thinning of peach blossoms to be completed earlier.From the entry thinner
  • The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.From the entry blush
  • The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.From the entry whiten
  • The bud blasted in the blossom.From the entry blast
  • Jude Bellingham has blossomed into a clinical scorer since joining Real Madrid.2023 October 26, Joseph Wilson, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in…. From the entry clinical
  • She is dressed in a jade-green sharara with pink blossoms embroidered on the fabric.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 270. From the entry sharara
  • Their blossoms exhaled pouchesful of musk, and the birds vied with one another in their strange speech.2021, Abū l-Muṭahhar al-Azdī; Emily Selove and Geert Jan van Gelder, editors, translators, and annotators, The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim…. From the entry pouchful
  • The smokecloud blossomed and more gathered to watch and Colette stood with her arms folded.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 24, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 131. From the entry smokecloud
  • What a gin blossom is literally — what it symbolizes, I suppose, is loss of control.2019, Adam Dolgins, The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names, page 1994. From the entry gin blossom
  • Steeped cucumber ratafia with Pimm's and Sprite is garnished with a squash blossom at T'afia in Houston.2007 August 29, Pete Wells, “Bottling the Bounty of the Season”, in New York Times. From the entry ratafia
  • The narrow tunnel had blossomed out into some seriously unnarrow tunnels.2007, John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor, Vorpal Blade. From the entry unnarrow
  • Steeped cucumber ratafia with Pimm’s and Sprite is garnished with a squash blossom at T’afia in Houston.2007 August 29, Pete Wells, “Bottling the Bounty of the Season”, in The New York Times. From the entry Pimm's
  • The trees around the little kids' playground dropped the blossomiest blossom I had ever seen.2005, Clare Sambrook, Hide & Seek, Canongate, published 2006, →ISBN, page 281. From the entry blossomiest
  • Underground film and performance art were blossoming; backroom mimeo presses seemed to be everywhere.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry mimeo
  • Eliza doted on the plumless tree that exploded in plum-scented blossoms but never once bore fruit.1996, Michael Drinkard, Disobedience, page 52. From the entry plumless
  • Million blossoms burst forth lifeful in their bright colours and perfumes.1995, Pritam Sen, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, God's love in Upanishad philosophies, page 181. From the entry lifeful
  • Center of blossom is white, but color infuses outward from shades of light to deep raspberry rose.1987, African Violet Magazine, volume 40, page 59. From the entry raspberry rose
  • The red blood blossoms into his white skivvy shirt like a beautiful flower.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry skivvy
  • “Half an acre of blossoming wu-t‘ung trees quietly locks up (so) a courtyardful of sad rain”1974, Chou Pang-yen, “Subtlety and Sophistication”, in James J. Y. Liu, editor, Major Lyricists of the Northern Sung: A.D. 960-1126…. From the entry courtyardful
  • She blossomed into the flapper nonpareil, outboozing everyone and scorching Puritan sensibilities with her athletic bisexuality.1972, Newsweek, volume 80, numbers 19-26. From the entry outbooze
  • Ftaeml, but I had never dared let the wish blossom into hope.1954, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 6, in The Star Beast, New York: Ballantine, page 100. From the entry amphigory
  • "I wonder where those prickly pear blossoms came from," he mused.1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107. From the entry prickly pear
  • Mollie Carroll and Randy Thomas, the flower of romance was a gin blossom.1934, Mark Hellinger, The Ten Million. From the entry gin blossom
  • Number six won’t yield fruit—always runs to blossom like a young girl to ribbons!1928, Phyllis Bottome, “Michel”, in Strange Fruit: Stories, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, part I…. From the entry kukuruz
  • Pollen is the essential feature or element in all fruitification of blossoms, essential to fruitbearing.1917, The Bee Keepers' Review - Volumes 30-31, page 10. From the entry fruitification
  • Here were the three tents overshadowed by the great lehuas, still brilliant with their cardinal blossoms.1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, page 165. From the entry lehua
  • And eyes of the heavenliest blue — that serene, Aprilish blue you find in periwinkle blossoms!1905, Walter Marion Raymond, Rebels of the New South, page 86. From the entry Aprilish
  • To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.1904 January 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure…. From the entry crimson
  • "Who could have dreamed that she would blossom out like that?1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars. From the entry blossom out
  • The recent blossoming of research on Left-Wing Authoritarianism (LWA) also provides important insights into possible manifestations in academia.2023, José Pedro Zúquete, The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism (volume 2, page 346). From the entry lwa
  • Cooked meals and blue blossoms in the yard and old leaves twirling in the chill wind and smoke from the chimney.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 6, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 37. From the entry blue blossom
  • Snowpowdered valleys and windswept leaves and pretty dogwood blossoms.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 54. From the entry snowpowdered
  • Olive cared for a stand of crape myrtles in her backyard because she delighted in butterflies and blossoms.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 263. From the entry crape myrtle
  • Arte Povera, the politicized avant-garde art movement that blossomed in Italy in the late ’60s, is having a moment.2017 January 30, M. H. Miller, “Arte Povera Is Back”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, →ISSN. From the entry Arte Povera
  • Cowfinches are a sort of brownish grey, and they eat just as much blossom, but nobody notices because they're so unobtrusive.'2016, Janet Shepperson, Vinnie's Wilderness, Liberties Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry cowfinch
  • Honey bees brazenly assault the cherry blossom.2015 April 16, Richard P. Grant, “Sex and the successful fundraiser”, in The Guardian. From the entry mewl

Meaning of blossom

  1. noun A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
  2. noun The state or season of producing such flowers.
  3. noun A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.

Full definition of blossom

Questions about blossom in a sentence

How do you use blossom in a sentence?
Blossom is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The blossom has come early this year.”
What is a short sentence with blossom?
“The orchard is in blossom.”
What does blossom mean?
Blossom means a flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blossom (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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