Sentence example with the word 'sprig'

sprig

adolescent, branch, fledgling, infant, limb, offshoot, runner, shoot, spur, teenager, wing, youngster

Definition n. a small branch or division of a branch

Last update: September 1, 2015


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I saw a guava on a sprig.   [Please select]

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It was, historically, only a personal nickname of Geoffrey, as was " Beauclerc " of his father-in-law (Henry I.) and " Curtmantel " of his son (Henry II.), and was derived from his wearing in his cap a sprig of the broom (genet) plant, "which in early summer makes the open country of Anjou and Maine a blaze of living gold."   [Please select]

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Milly served me that cutlet with a sprig of parsley.   [Please select]

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So that's a sprig of gum-tree, is it.   [Please select]

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He brought the sprig to Mrs.   [Please select]

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She came, dressed in white, with a sprig of myrtle in her hair, beautiful as one of the Graces.   [Please select]

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The Oxford students pulled down a Presbyterian meeting-house, and the sprig of oak was publicly displayed on the 29th of May.   [Please select]

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A year soon passed by, and the children came once more, But not a sprig of Mistletoe the aged Willow bore.   [Please select]

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But he is not a pleasant sprig of royalty, and the visitors were warned not to go too near him.   [Please select]

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"Dear Jack, hand me a sprig of broom to stick in Conny's ear," persisted Polly in a loud whisper.   [Please select]

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It contained merely a sprig of heather, and written on the enclosure--"From my dear wife, Isobel; her first gift."   [Please select]

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