Sentence examples for lily from inspiring English sources
The word "lily" is correct in written English
It can be used to refer to a type of flowering plant or as a metaphor for purity and beauty. Example: "She received a bouquet of white lilies for her birthday, symbolizing her purity."
noun
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
Seeing them there, the head of botany at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden (botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk) returned to build his own lily house.
The screen version of Testament of Youth gilds the lily of Vera Brittain's memoir – though fans of the book may well feel it didn't need so much extra adornment.
Other highlights in Sotheby's sale include a huge and vibrantly coloured abstract by Gerhard Richter, Absraktes Bild, 1992, with an estimate of $30m; a Monet water lily painting, Nympheas, with an estimate of $30m-$30m-$45m Roy Lichtenstein's The Ring (Engagement) 1962 with an estimate of $50m.
"So other people will most likely notice Lily and quickly figure out where you are.
It is the result of an intense focus of mind and eye over many years, on a stretch of water, in a garden, planted with water lilies, and it invites the same concentrated communion in return.Monet's "Nymphéas" (1904), estimated by Sotheby's at £10-15m, represents a turning-point in the French artist's love-affair with his lily pond.
If this is Lily talking, she sounds very writerly, very Will Self.In fact, between them, they sometimes manage to say something more serious and moral than their no-flies-on-me snarl suggests.
And so on.Now, when I was comin' up, sonny, in a not entirely lily-white neighbourhood in Washington, DC, we didn't talk much about racism.
In fact, the filling is mostly made of tiger-lily buds and preserved cabbage, and it illustrates just how different the same dish can be when prepared for Chinese rather than Western palates.The first main course to arrive is beef sautéed with scallions and ginger.
This painting (shown left), one of the finest from this famous series ever to come to auction, marks a shift, not only in Monet's treatment of the evolving water-lily theme, but in his overall approach to his art.
But its lily-livered approach might, in fact, be the right one.
Iowa's lily-white electorate flocked to him joyfully.
