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How to use pansy in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Pansy means a cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. Example: “Though there's nothing common about the pansy.' Fanny commanded a room when she talked about her plants.”

More sentences with pansy

  • Though there's nothing common about the pansy.' Fanny commanded a room when she talked about her plants.2021, Samantha Silva, “Mary W”, in Love and Fury, London: Allison & Busby, →ISBN. From the entry kiss-her-in-the-buttery
  • In fact, the wild pansy was valued in ancient times for its potency in love charms.2017, Niall Mac Coitir, Ireland's Wild Plants – Myths, Legends & Folklore. From the entry wild pansy
  • It is close to, and often crosses with, the wild pansy, V. tricolor.2013, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, page 37. From the entry wild pansy
  • I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.2002, Miss Read, Gossip from Thrush Green, →ISBN. From the entry deadheader
  • Pansies are still poking their little facies around every mailbox and birdbath forsythia is blooming, too!1997 April 17, Joyce Lowe, “Sedley”, in The Tidewater News, 91st year, number 62, Franklin, Va., page B3, column 1. From the entry facie
  • It had dark green shiny leaves like a rhodie, but its flowers looked like giant purple pansies.1995, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, Dutton, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry rhodie
  • Pansy McLash, the keeper of the Siding House, was flogging a herd of goats from her garden.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 80. From the entry stockwhip
  • Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 115. From the entry periwinkle
  • In the pansy one petal is modified for the same purpose, and in the columbine each of the five petals is a honey-tube.1908, M. M. Penstone, A Cycle of Nature Study Suitable for Children Under Twelve, page 195. From the entry honey tube
  • 'Looks like a common pansy,' I said, studying the fine ink drawing she was just starting to fill in with touches of purple, both subtle and bold.2021, Samantha Silva, “Mary W”, in Love and Fury, London: Allison & Busby, →ISBN. From the entry kiss-her-in-the-buttery
  • All the articles of his trade were filed away on the coast, sea cradles here, octopi here, tubs worms in another place, sea pansies in another.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. From the entry sea pansy

Meaning of pansy

  1. noun A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
  2. noun A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
  3. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.

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Questions about pansy in a sentence

How do you use pansy in a sentence?
Pansy is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Though there's nothing common about the pansy.' Fanny commanded a room when she talked about her plants.”
What is a short sentence with pansy?
“I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.”
What does pansy mean?
Pansy means a cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.

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