Sentence examples for flowery from inspiring English sources

The word "flowery" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to something that has many flowers or something that is worded in a very ornate or exaggerated manner. For example: "The bride's bouquet was especially flowery, with a variety of colors decorating the ceremony site."

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flowery

adjective

Pertaining to flowers.

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I don't like how girls have flowery shoes.

Kate Hutchinson East India Youth: giving a face, and a flowery shirt, to electronic music The Mercury music prize promotes "the best" of British music.

A flowery kingdom?

It is easy to call national sovereignty an "erroneous idea" in a flowery speech.

Earlier this month Iran countered the so-called P5+1 group's longstanding demand for talks with a flowery proposal for broad strategic negotiations that would bury the nuclear issue.

Although Mr Khamenei and the recently elected Iranian president, Hassan Rohani, have made several unexpected gestures of goodwill in recent weeks, this time round Mr Obama made no flowery references to friendship.

Results are what count, not flowery phrases and rhetorical flourishes.

Though Ayatollah Khamenei and Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rohani, have offered some unusual concessions in recent weeks, Mr Obama made no flowery references to friendship this time.

Although the language is flowery, the vision is simple: students should learn as much as they are capable of, just as soon as they are ready.A change this autumn in the way the government draws up school league tables will facilitate changes in the rest of the system, too.

"It seems the earth is shaking," said Mr Koizumi, his flowery rhetoric getting the better of him.

It is dry too: users will find their imagination has less to feed off than in more flowery guides.The maps are a disappointment.

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