Sentence examples for ring of petals from inspiring English sources

Shallow like a saucer, it has sides molded to resemble a ring of petals, suggesting an open chrysanthemum flower.

Besides, there are smaller dahlias, like pompons, collarettes (the ones with a ring of petals around a fluffy center) and mignons (single-flowered).

The long-lasting flowers have four sepals, a four-cleft, bell-shaped, or tubular corolla (ring of petals), inflated in many species, and a four-celled capsule.

They evolved an inner ring of petals that became big and showy, and an outer ring of usually green, leaflike growths called sepals, which protect young flowers as they bud.

There's a new confidence in renditions of the human figure (see Graham Little's drawing in color pencil of a solemn woman in an orange jacket whose unzipped collar frames her face like a ring of petals) as well as landscape (Russell Crotty's ink drawings record his sightings of night skies in southern California and remind you that stars can still refer to something besides the Eminem kind).

It has a ring of white petals with a tuft of yellow threads in the center.

The impact of his debut collection — which Dior named Corolle, to evoke a ring of flower petals, but which the fashion editor Carmel Snow promptly baptized the "New Look" — was immediate and far-reaching.

Designed by Renzo Piano, it has a ring of 26 concrete "petals" that go all the way around the top tier; the lower tier is set in a depression next to a running track.

The young athletes lighted the sculpture, and the flame spread to each petal, making a ring of fire.

There followed a flurry of petals.

There was no shower of petals.