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How to use bouquet in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Bouquet means an arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay. Example: “For my birthday I received two bouquets.”

Examples of bouquet by meaning

nounAn arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.

  • For my birthday I received two bouquets.

nounA decoratively arranged bunch of something.

  • Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
  • Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10

nounThe scent of a particular wine.

  • This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

nounThe middle note of a perfume.

  • The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

nounA group of pheasants.

  • Whether it was everyday chores around the farm, taking in abandoned animals, or, most recently, tending to a bouquet of pheasants and wild birds, she looked after all living things with a nurturing zeal.2024 December 9, Southern Utah Mortuary, “Rita Brower Obituary”, in Legacy.com, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026

More sentences with bouquet

  • It is a beautiful bouquet! You needn't've bothered, thank you.From the entry -n't
  • He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?From the entry corny
  • After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar.2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172. From the entry vase
  • In the past, the bouquet garni was a prescribed mixture of thyme, bay leaf, and parsley.2010, Ruth Lively, Cooking from the Garden, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry bouquet garni
  • Their dressing room could barely contain all the bouquets they received.2010, Daphne Kalotay, chapter 7, in Russian Winter, London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group Limited, published 2012, →ISBN, book I…. From the entry calendula
  • You can add kitchen bouquet to color it and patch holes and tears in meats.2010, Denise Vivaldo, Food Stylist's Handbook, page 84. From the entry kitchen bouquet
  • Learn about taste zones, clarity and bouquet, and sample some of the “educational materials.”2009 April 26, The Baltimore Sun, 172nd year, number 116, section “you”, page 2. From the entry wineology
  • Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times. From the entry handblown
  • Put the tomatoes, garlic, bouquet garni, salt, and pepper in a saucepan.2007, Anne Willan, The Country Cooking of France, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry concassé
  • Provided are matching satin ribbon detailings, topped with an embroidered floral bouquet in delicate contrasting shades.1979, the Consumers Union, Funerals: consumers' last rights, →ISBN. From the entry detailing
  • Homage became nightly tangible in bouquets, rings, brooches—things acceptable and (luckier than their donors) accepted.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry postprandially
  • "Lots of little girls there had bouquets pinned on their dresses.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XII, in Anne of Green Gables. From the entry what's the difference
  • Who ever heard of a bride with a bouquet of passion-flowers?1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine. From the entry passion-flower
  • Bouquets called tussy-mussies were sent as coded messages, allowing the sender to express feelings that couldn't be spoken aloud.2014, Susan Elia MacNeal, chapter 11, in The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent (A Maggie Hope Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN…. From the entry floriography
  • After breakfast, she looked forward to the bouquet of red lehua blossoms and other flowers brought to her every day.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 222. From the entry lehua
  • Bouquets of roses from her garden filled the room.2011, Julian Guthrie, “Suffering”, in The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith…. From the entry Queen Elizabeth
  • She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21. From the entry vase
  • Of course, I knew he couldn't read; we loved this basset for his extraordinary beauty and houndly bouquet, not his brains.2008, Kitty Foth-Regner, Heaven Without Her. From the entry houndly
  • And so Belize finds herself left at the altar, all dressed up, a bouquet of "Differendums" in hand, dowry pledges made.2004, Food for Thought: Chronicles of Belize, page 177. From the entry differendum
  • It is very dark and tastes slightly sweet and the coriander adds a delightful piquancy to the flavor bouquet.1983, Anne Volokh, “Borodinskii Khleb: Dark Rye Bread Borodinskii”, in The Art of Russian Cuisine, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing…. From the entry borodinskii bread
  • Obviously he was a chocolate soldier, a bouquet boy.1932, Warwick Deeping, Old wine and new, A. A. Knopf, page 152. From the entry chocolate soldier
  • "Lady, you're carrying off the bouquet," he said, aggrievedly.1920, Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa. From the entry aggrievedly
  • Wilbur Groom both wore gowns of pink georgette, all carrying bouquets of Columbia roses in the light and darker shades.1920, The Independent, volume 43, page 6. From the entry bridesmatron
  • Danziger’s new Green Dragon, a delicate and airy Lepidium, is a unique green filler for flower arrangements that blends harmoniously in any centerpiece or bouquet.2019 February 19, “Green Fillers for Flower Arrangements”, in Danzinger Online, Danzinger. From the entry harmoniously
  • However, the current existing commercial yeasts present some constrains, namely reducing the uniqueness of wine bouquet, characteristic of the different vitivinicultural regions throughout the world.2015 November 25, “Exploring the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Volatile Metabolome: Indigenous versus Commercial Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry vitivinicultural
  • Now they were doing it again: Waiting, with a bouquet of alstroemeria and purple tulips, for Asbury Park’s deputy city clerk, D.2007 February 20, Ellen Barry, “Eagerness and Some Resignation as Civil Union Law Takes Effect”, in New York Times. From the entry alstroemeria
  • Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic.1998, Margaret Winchell, Armed with Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia, Hermitage Publishers, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry aluminumware
  • Two horses milled shackleless along the street, and a flower seller screamed her abuse as she returned crushed bouquets to her overturned basket.1994, Maria Greene, An Inconvenient Marriage. From the entry shackleless
  • I took Paulette’s bouquet from the carton—a loose-stemmed spray of delphinia, coquette roses, white lilacs and Queen Anne’s lace—and placed it in her arms.1992, Elinor Lipman, The Way Men Act, Pocket Books, page 196. From the entry delphinia
  • This is it,” she said, extracting a single long stemmed ferny grass with clusters of small white flowers from the bouquet in her hand.1979, Victor Kaplan, The Woman who Gathered Yarrow; The Box; Miss Vesey's Other Leg, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry yarrow
  • The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.1903, Anna Katharine Green, chapter 6, in The Filigree Ball. From the entry unfavourable
  • The first thing I see is a sympathy bouquet from the Dean of New College—white roses, anthuria and orchids in a crystal vase next to the sink.2019, Helen Marshall, The Migration, Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry anthurium
  • They kissed and embraced me and laughed and divided the bouquet up and put the biggest part into a vase and the smaller ones into jam-pots.2015, Sulkhan Zhordania, “In the Beginning Was the Fist”, in The Asylum Seeker, Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry jam-pot
  • This style of bouquet is ultrainvolved and ultraexpensive to construct, so when a similar, formal look is desired, you might choose a round, tightly packed, hand-tied bouquet.2012, Sharon Naylor, Del Blair Delaubenfels, Christy Weber, Bridal Bible: Inspiration for Planning Your Perfect Wedding, page 200. From the entry ultraexpensive

Meaning of bouquet

  1. noun An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
  2. noun A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
  3. noun The scent of a particular wine.

Full definition of bouquet

Questions about bouquet in a sentence

How do you use bouquet in a sentence?
Bouquet is used as a noun. For example: “For my birthday I received two bouquets.”
What is a short sentence with bouquet?
“This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.”
What does bouquet mean?
Bouquet means an arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.

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