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How to use heather in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, adjective

Heather means an evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers. Example: “The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.”

Examples of heather by meaning

nounAn evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.

  • The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

More sentences with heather

  • Heather and Scott also called the police to confirm their son was reported missing.2026 August 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Ryan Shtuka, 20, Vanished After Leaving a House Party at a Ski Resort in 2018. His Walk Home Was Only…. From the entry hang up
  • The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather.2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time. From the entry mountainy
  • The shirts were light blue heather ringers with royal blue trim on the necks and sleeves.2011, Buck Peden, Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies: An Autobiography, page 278. From the entry ringer
  • Heathers got me work on a bigger film called Ford Fairlane.1994, Gail O'Donnell, Michele Travolta, Making it in Hollywood: behind the success of 50 of today's favorite actors, screenwriters…. From the entry fail upwards
  • Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies.2025 November 29, Ed Morrissey, quoting Camus @newstart_2024, “Saturday's Final Word”, in Hot Air. From the entry wrongthink
  • Heather drove her mother to the Bloodshot Eyeball so they could survey the damage in the cold light of day.2025 August 26, Jennifer Bernard, chapter 33, in Light of Day, Jennifer Bernard. From the entry in the cold light of day
  • Heather felt Lillian's breath on her cheek and tried not to visibly let the shiver go down her spine.2024 February 25, Queerious, “The Deadname Meme”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024. From the entry gaydar
  • They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.2011, Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor, Interactive Publications, →ISBN. From the entry bowk
  • Acid-loving plants such as camellias, heathers, azaleas and rhododendrons are best planted in an ericaceous (acid) potting mix.2004, John Mason, Nursery Management, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry ericaceous
  • She had twisted a piece of heather into her mail box for good joss, and this was the safety signal.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 178. From the entry joss
  • There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire!1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National…. From the entry womanhood
  • Sure, you could go with the German sock stuff – but that’s just heathers and you don’t want the woman depressed, for chrissake.2003, Lorna Mary Jackson, A Game to Play on the Tracks, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry on the boob
  • She saw a patch of mossberries, the shiny black berries nearly hidden in a tangle of heather, and stopped to pick them.1990, Sue Harrison, Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry mossberry
  • HEATHER: But he'd deny it afterwards.1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, page 79. From the entry abreact
  • His bare feet, as they trod the heather and fraughan beneath them , sent a thrill of primitive ecstacy to his expectant mind.1906, W. M. Letts, “Paudeen in the Woods”, in Temple Bar, volume 1, London: Macmillan & Co., page 553. From the entry fraughan

Meaning of heather

  1. noun An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
  2. noun A plant in the family Ericaceae.
  3. noun Various species of the genus Erica.

Full definition of heather

Questions about heather in a sentence

How do you use heather in a sentence?
Heather is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.”
What is a short sentence with heather?
“HEATHER: But he'd deny it afterwards.”
What does heather mean?
Heather means an evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.

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