Sentence examples for in vase from inspiring English sources

"Find some fruit in vase on side board," Nabokov writes.

The long-term superiority of the male nude in western art depended on classical Greece, where a homosexual preference was openly expressed in vase painting and in literature.

Application of SNP in vase solution resulted in a decrease in proline content in the stems of cut flowers of both cultivars, providing evidence for alleviation of water deficit in SNP-supplied cut flowers.

Athletes oiled and dusted their bodies before competing, and afterward — in an act that had a name: apoxyomenos — scraped themselves clean with curved metal implements called strigils, which appear often in vase paintings.

In the gymnasium you were gymnos, naked; it was the locale for that homoerotic sheen that suffuses the Platonic dialogues, the site of those sexual contacts between an adult man and a youth so often depicted in vase paintings.

In vase painting and in sculpture, this new tone is evident in the composition of scenes and in details such as drapery, where the fussy pleats of the Archaic chiton give place to the heavy, straight fall of an outer robe called the peplos.

Warm and floral, possibly contributed by a wilting daisy in the built-in vase.

Flowers in vases, fruit in bowls, cursing in the conversation.

Floral bouquets were arranged in vases of classical severity.

"I would go out and cut peonies and bring them in and put them in vases.

She spotted the ring but assumed his great-aunt hid jewelry in vases.