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• There's no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss.From the entry boss
• The petaled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.From the entry petaled
• The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.From the entry petalled
• The sunflowers will catch the sun if they are planted there.From the entry catch the sun
• She finds sunflowers to be too tall and gawky to be a "proper" garden flower !2021 March 16, @MarkK58, X, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2026. From the entry helianthophobia
• Sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem artichokes, are tubers from a type of sunflower native to North America.2017 February 24, Nancy Stiles, “Three Ways to Use Sunchokes While They're in Season”, in Feast Magazine. From the entry artichokelike
• In addition, pomegranate is connected with divination, and sunflower with wisdom.2013, Sandra Kynes, Mixing Essential Oils for Magic. From the entry carrier oil
• A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Penguin Books, page 5. From the entry rigid
• “Oh, look, here are my sunflower shoesies.” She held them up.1999, Nancy Holder, Up, Up, and Away, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry shoesies
• Sunflowers grace most of the continental United States with a lush, vibrant beauty.1995, Bill Branon, “Melody”, in Devils Hole, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry ambrosia
• And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.1925, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[Literature and Art.] Morality and the Novel.”, in Edward D[avid] McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The…. From the entry visualize
• I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.1917, Studies in the Social Sciences, number 9, page 20. From the entry parching
• Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. From the entry darkness
• I've always had this odd deep fear of sunflowers, helianthophobia.2025 July 10, @Mellow_Rabbit_, X, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2026. From the entry helianthophobia
• Many observers rejected the notion that they needed to choose between preserving Earthly life and enjoying van Gogh’s sunflowers.2022 October 18, Eric Levitz, “Throwing Soup at Paintings Won’t Save the Climate”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media…. From the entry Van Gogh
• Overall, maximum levels of alternariol were higher than those reported in the literature with the exception of sunflower.2015 August 20, María J. Nichea et al., “Presence of Multiple Mycotoxins and Other Fungal Metabolites in Native Grasses from a Wetland…. From the entry alternariol
• The residents mainly cultivate food crops (maize, rice, sweet potatoes and beans) and cash crops (tobacco, groundnuts, simsim and sunflower).2015 August 8, Justine A. Assenga et al., “Epidemiology of Brucella infection in the human, livestock and wildlife interface in the…. From the entry simsim
• I mix some sunflower seeds in there, too.2015, Shalini Saxena, A Bird Watcher's Guide to Goldfinches. From the entry nyjer seed
• The mother of all daisies, the sunflower is a plant that all nature-watchers should consider growing in their gardens.2013, Marianne Taylor, The Nature Book: What It Is and How It Lives. From the entry flowerkind
• The oils in store-bought mayonnaise range from olive oil to sunflower oil to safflower oil and some less desirable oils!2008, Jan McCracken, The Everything Lactose Free Cookbook. From the entry mayonnaise
• The most common though sometimes difficult to tell apart yellow members of the sunflower family are arnicas, groundsels, goldenrods, and mountain-dandelions.2008, James Luther Davis, The Northwest Nature Guide, page 205. From the entry DYC
• I once had a flight to Toronto where the snack-pack had soygurt, fresh fruit, and sunflower butter with crackers.2008, Sarah Kramer, Vegan á Go-Go!: A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road, Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry soygurt
• The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times. From the entry perennialize
• Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.2007 October 21, Amy Serafin, “The Louvre Now Accepts the Living”, in New York Times. From the entry depetal
• They were sandals decorated at the toes with huge sunflowers.1999, Nancy Holder, Up, Up, and Away, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry shoesies
• Orange sneezeweed, also called Hoopes sneezeweed, western sneezeweed, owlsclaws, sunflower, and yellowweed, is a perennial plant poisonous to livestock.1940, Forest Service, Wool growers, range owners, range administrators should work together to stop sheep losses from poisonous orange…. From the entry yellowweed
• His painting does not represent the sunflower itself.1925, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[Literature and Art.] Morality and the Novel.”, in Edward D[avid] McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The…. From the entry visualize
• There was a lovely ravel of sunflowers in the garden.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 380. From the entry ravel
• Several studies have been carried out on application of fertilizers and manures for improving yield of pearl millet, moong bean, moth bean, sesame, sunflower, etc.2023, Natural Resource Management in the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan, Springer International Publishing, page 91. From the entry moong bean
• Indeed, the true flowers are not conspicuous at all; what makes sunflowers stand out are the big yellow “petals” that surround the discful of florets.2015, Will Bonsall, Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables…. From the entry discful
• Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry three sisters
• In the front yard of her illustrated home are an ultragreen lawn and a garden filled with sunflowers almost as tall as the house.2003, Gene Del Vecchio, The blockbuster toy!: how to invent the next big thing, page 60. From the entry ultragreen
• Many of our most popular flowers originated in Mexico including: marigolds, zinnias, nasturtiums, morning glories, cosmos, tithonias, sunflowers, verbenas, and many different sages.2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, page 11. From the entry tithonia
• Cultivating your own sunroots is easy! — a lot easier, in fact, than getting rid of this perennial sunflower once it's become established.1994, Monthly Bulletin - Volumes 65-69, page 67. From the entry sunroot
• A sunflower, bending its head, peered at us with its round, polyphemic, impersonal eye, the long yellow lashes half-curled over the great black pupil.1944, Curzio Malaparte, translated by Cesare Foligno, Kaputt. From the entry polyphemic
• I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching.1917, Studies in the Social Sciences, number 9, page 20. From the entry parching
• "There are my sunflowers!" she said.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 380. From the entry ravel
• Sunflower thinks that combining her green bra with one of her glittery and sparkly edition diaper corsets would make her attractive for a diaper fashion show.2023 April 17, @BryanGhidorah2002, “St Patrick's Day Sunflower (Glitter + Bra Alt)”, in Fur Affinity. From the entry diaper corset

Meaning of sunflower

1. noun Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
2. noun The commonly cultivated species, Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
3. noun A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

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How do you use sunflower in a sentence?

Sunflower is used as a noun. For example: “There's no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss.”

What is a short sentence with sunflower?

“"There are my sunflowers!" she said.”

What does sunflower mean?

Sunflower means any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.