How to use poppy in a sentence

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• These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.From the entry seed
• Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?From the entry plain
• Meals conclude with a dessert such as sernik (cheesecake), makowiec (poppy seed pastry), or napoleonka (cream pie).2022 December 13, Katy Lyons, “Introduction”, in Polish Recipes, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Press, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry napoleonka
• The treatment involves flushing a woman’s fallopian tubes with specially treated poppy seed oil.2017 May 19, Lizzie Parry, “This century-old treatment could replace IVF”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry poppy seed oil
• Senior center staff will provide babka (bread) and rogaliki (poppy seed and nut roll).2008 May 25, “Polka party will step off”, in Courier News, Somerville, N.J.: Gannett, page B-4, column 3. From the entry rogalik
• Beroard, whose voice can be bright and poppy or sweetly affectionate.2007 August 2, Jon Pareles, “A Wide Range of Sounds, From Antillean to Zouk”, in New York Times. From the entry biguine
• I held her during dessert, a sticky-frostinged poppy seed cake he’d bought on his way home.2007, Gwendolen Gross, The Other Mother, New York, N.Y.: Shaye Areheart Books, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry frostinged
• He reached for a handful of kutia, the luscious sweet of boiled wheat, poppy seeds and honey.2003, Laura Langston, chapter 16, in Lesia’s Dream, Toronto, Ont.: HarperTrophyCanada, published 2005, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry kutia
• There is a reason why Irish presidents don't wear poppies (or hammers-and-sickles, or Japanese chrysanthema).2001 November 17, Mark Devlin, “Re: Wonderful poppies of flanders”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry chrysanthema
• Amy found a bag of poppy seeds and wants to make strucla, a kind of bread.1999 April 25, Betsy Carson, “Writer’s first book a raging success”, in The Herald-Sun, final edition, Durham, N.C.: Durham Herald Co.…. From the entry strucla
• Many a cook knows well the value of poppy seed for muffins and breads.1996 October 13, Joan Lee Faust, “Hooked, Winged or Eaten, Seeds Get Around”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry poppy seed
• They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 232. From the entry bluet
• I don't see how you can make it stick without the poppy—and you won't find that."1964, John Gosling, Dennis Craig, The Great Train Robbery, page 42. From the entry ricket
• But our modern weed-killers are master of the charlock, the poppy and the starveacre.1953, Agriculture - Volume 60, page 252. From the entry starveacre
• The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry mandragora
• I bought two packets, one with poppy seeds, one without.2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry sushka
• “Essence of poppy oils,” she told Marketa.2012, Linda Lafferty, “The Reunion”, in The Bloodletter’s Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia, Las Vegas, Nev.: Amazon Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry poppy oil
• We were treated to pampushkas, round rolls with poppy seeds.2011, Anna Stepanova, “My War-Torn Childhood”, in Love and Tears: Suffering and Survival in Wartime Russia, Brighton, East Sussex: The…. From the entry pampushka
• One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed.2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest. From the entry spiderwort
• When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate.2005, Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad. From the entry exudate
• The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Davos [Seaworth]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager…. From the entry leech
• Poppies, hemp, and darnel were scavenged, dried, and ground up to produce a medieval hash brownie known as "crazy bread".1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry darnel
• Although kompot, a locally produced poppy straw derivative, is the most prevalent drug in Poland, amphetamine use is becoming increasingly widespread.1995 March, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, “Poland”, in International Narcotics Control Strategy Report…. From the entry kompot
• The dawn’s breaking over no-man’s-land – Dewdrops glistening on the poppies in the early morning sun! ‘Good morning, corporal!1975, Tom Stoppard, Travesties, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry tickety-boo
• Semyon Akopovich would take glossy, crinkly bubliks, sprinkled with poppy seed, out of the pocket of his old coat.1969, Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, “Wrestler Dovgello”, in Southern Adventure (Story of a Life; V), London…. From the entry bublik
• Poppy red or island blue on white; misses’ sizes.1959 February 20, “Jelleff’s”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, 82nd year, number 77, Washington, D.C., page A19, column 5. From the entry bodicing
• Poppies make very showy floweries and should be planted lightly in the spots where they are intended to be grown.1914 April, Grasmere [pseudonym], “April Days on Canada’s Farms”, in Farmer’s Magazine, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean Publishing Company, →OCLC…. From the entry flowery
• Of flowers there were double poppies and sweet-williams.1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman At The Store. From the entry sweet william
• Do I want cute, poppy TayTay?2022, Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry Taytay
• They've got the "everything" flavor of minced onions, garlic, sesame seeds and poppy seeds on the inside as well as the outside.2019, Erin Renouf Mylroie, “Double Everything Bagels”, in 2-Ingredient Miracle Dough Cookbook, Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry everything bagel
• Tebirkes are delicious poppy seed covered Danish pastries, a little like pain au chocolat in appearance, but with buttery almond remonce inside instead of chocolate.2012, Signe Johansen, Scandilicious Baking, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry remonce
• It's a hard roll, more specifically a crusty kaiser roll, sprinkled with caraway and coarse salt instead of the more familiar poppy seed topping.2011, Donald A. Gazzaniga, Maureen A. Gazzaniga, No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Soups, Salads, and Sandwiches, page 195. From the entry kaiser roll
• In spring, this meadow glows with bright orange California poppies and yellow suncups; by summer, golden oat grass covers the sloping fields.2008, Jean Rusmore, Bay Area Ridge Trail. From the entry suncup
• On the top Balcony is Esperanza just down from the mountains since her husband and all her brothers are in prison for growing opium poppies.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 5. From the entry poppies
• 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
• Lesia put a bowl of kutya, its boiled wheat grains mixed with honey and ground poppy seed, in the center of the table.1954 December, Olive Knox, “The Evening Star”, in H[arold] S[tanley] Fry, editor, The Country Guide, Winnipeg, Man.: The Public Press…. From the entry kutya
• Poppy bit her lip to stop from laughing at the idea of an aircongasm (an airgasm?) when she realised she was staring at a guy stacking the shelves.2024 December 3, Leesa Ronald, “Chapter 3”, in Special Delivery, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN. From the entry airgasm
• Poppy lifts the hose's heavy head and the purest water in the world forms a rainbow through which Talia does a kneesie, then bounces back onto her feet, squealing.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry kneesie

Meaning of poppy

1. noun Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
2. noun A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
3. noun A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.

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How do you use poppy in a sentence?

Poppy is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.”

What is a short sentence with poppy?

“Do I want cute, poppy TayTay?”

What does poppy mean?

Poppy means any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.