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How to use bonsai in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Bonsai means a tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning. Example: “She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.”

Examples of bonsai by meaning

verbTo make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.

  • Could I be a father who was, so to speak, bonsaiing his children, trimming urban roots, and then twisting the emerging branches?2001, Dennis Parks, Living in the Country Growing Weird, page 50

More sentences with bonsai

  • She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.From the entry barter
  • Without Soviet support surrounding the missile crisis, Cuba's military would have been merely a bonsai army and they would have quickly succumbed to any serious invasion from the west.From the entry bonsai army
  • A jumblesome profusion of cuttings and grafts offers a more promising metaphor than does bonsai.2016, Dennis P. Affholter, Letter to the Editor. From the entry jumblesome
  • His first magical creature was a bonsai tiger called Jack (of the tabby variety), followed by a small luck dragon named Daisy.2009 March 1, Sam Bowring, The Zoo of Magical and Mythological Creatures, Macmillan, preface. From the entry luck dragon
  • Indoor bonsai — tropical and subtropical plants like ficus, Ming aralia, podocarpus and dwarf jade — are easier to care for and will thrive inside.2009 February 26, Stephen Orr, “Not All Trees Are Cut Out to Be Bonsai”, in New York Times. From the entry podocarpus
  • What was for many years an eIusive dream among FiIipino bonsai artists and suiseki Iovers, has now become a reaIity: the pubIication of this book.2004, Bonsai & Suiseki: Trees & Stones, →ISBN. From the entry suiseki
  • Bonsai, Bromelias, Cactuses, Orchideas), as well as to the arrangement of inner spaces, hobby greenhouses and indoor glass cabinets, and to indoor plant protection.1989, Acta Agronomica Hungarica, page 182. From the entry orchidea
  • The same love for natural form expressed in bonsai is also found in suiseki, or stone viewing, long associated with bonsai in Japanese tradition.1988, United States. Agricultural Research Service, The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum of the U.S. National Arboretum. From the entry suiseki
  • Hosaka, nearly everyone agrees, is a master of detail, an artist who tends his poodles’ poufs as if they were bonsai trees from his native Japan.2009 February 10, Katie Thomas, “The Poodle Can’t Talk Now; She’s in With Her Stylist”, in New York Times. From the entry pouf

Meaning of bonsai

  1. noun A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning.
  2. noun The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner.
  3. verb To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.

Full definition of bonsai

Questions about bonsai in a sentence

How do you use bonsai in a sentence?
Bonsai is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.”
What is a short sentence with bonsai?
“She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.”
What does bonsai mean?
Bonsai means a tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning.

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