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How to use daffodil in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, adjective

Daffodil means a bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. Example: “I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.”

Examples of daffodil by meaning

nounA bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus...

  • Was there ever a more beautiful name in the world than daffodil?1919 November 20, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “Daffodils”, in Not That It Matters, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […]...

More sentences with daffodil

  • I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.From the entry garden
  • I should ask the green thumb next door what she recommends for my droopy daffodils.From the entry green thumb
  • These carnations smell beautiful but those daffodils smell funny.From the entry beautiful
  • Daffodils and robins are heralds of Spring.From the entry herald
  • There was one daffodil left in the garden, but he needed something to cut it.2015, “February 5: Fancy Dancin’ Goofy”, in Disney Junior 365 Stories: A Story a Day, Bath, Somerset: Parragon, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry daffodilly
  • It was a daffodil scent; it symbolized spring and the hope that spring always brings.2007, Celia Lyttelton, The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry concrete
  • It was nearly Easter and she was potting up daffodils and narcissi for sale at the EasterFest in the Park.2010, Helen Slavin, The Stopping Place. From the entry Easterfest
  • The circles, which were ablaze with daffodils this spring, are now afloat with airy geum, cosmos, acidanthera and dahlias.2009 August 13, Anne Raver, “A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year”, in New York Times. From the entry acidanthera
  • She should find some daffodils somewhere and take their picture.2006, Kathleen de Azevedo, Samba Dreamers, page 170. From the entry plumpie
  • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham. From the entry carpet
  • The whole area was tastefully laid out with gardens full of daffodils and other Wordsworthian aids to memory.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 479. From the entry Wordsworthian
  • The smell of wall-flower and sweet alyssum rose from the garden, and the inexpressible freshness of the daffodils.1944, Emily Carr, “A Visitor”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry sweet alyssum
  • The daffodils I planted in the autumn are marching their way along the path, strident trumpets fanfaring the first warmish day of the year.2008, Ann Burnett, Loving Mother, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry fanfare
  • He can cry you a river over that one, and over a darling little clump of daffodils growing by the traffic island.2008 March 4, Michele Hanson, “I cry over anything lately”, in The Guardian. From the entry cry someone a river
  • Cobble Hill Park Lush dogwood trees, bright yellow and cream-colored daffodils, and a wrought-iron fence provide an atmosphere of privacy and seclusion to the Brooklyn park-goer.2008, Joseph Meyers, Inside New York 2009, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry park-goer
  • Right now spring is unfolding on woodland slopes in the south garden with a mélange of scilla, Chionodoxa luciliae and pulmonaria, punctuated by brilliant splashes of daffodils.2007 April 27, Paula Deitz, “It’s Spring in New York, Finally. So Who Needs April in Paris?”, in New York Times. From the entry pulmonaria
  • In early March the almonds are in flower, delicately pink, and there are washes of bright daffodils beneath the orchard trees; you can see women gathering them for market.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 3. From the entry almond
  • The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102. From the entry sea

Meaning of daffodil

  1. noun A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
  2. noun A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
  3. adjective Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

Full definition of daffodil

Questions about daffodil in a sentence

How do you use daffodil in a sentence?
Daffodil is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.”
What is a short sentence with daffodil?
“Daffodils and robins are heralds of Spring.”
What does daffodil mean?
Daffodil means a bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.

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