Sentence examples for stalk like from inspiring English sources

The flower-head tumbles away from its stalk like a spirit set free.

The biennial plant grows a stalk like celery, but thicker and taller.

This time of year, amaranth's tightly packed green flowers rise up from the central stalk like baby green torches, which later produce numerous black seeds.

While most mushrooms have "gills" beneath their caps, radiating horizontally from the stalk like spokes on a wheel, boletes have tiny vertical "tubes", packed so closely that they seem to form a solid or slightly spongy mass.

They stalk like stiff-legged feral creatures; they shuffle and grunt on all fours; they retreat into near-catatonic shivering, or eat up space in foot-slapping, arm-waving delirium.

To a hyena, a grass stalk like this is an olfactory Facebook.

The stroller was the ridiculous type with a thin, stalk-like rod going from the wheels, which the basket seat with the child rested on.

Most recently, I've spotted it in its transitional stalk-like form, and on the verge of flowering, on Staten Island and as far up as the Bronx River.

Nicole Kidman was miscast in "The Human Stain"; here, with her flashing eyes and stalk-like body, she's on top of her game again as a minister's daughter devoted to duty but eager to break out.

As a veteran union figure, Bill Nighy, with his stalk-like body and his exquisite circumspection, plays a gentle guy who stops being gentle when he sees the cops.

But it's wonderfully atmospheric: through Cotton's eyes we see America as a land of plenty where "cheese kept appearing in unexpected places, in blue mottled crumbs beside walnuts, melted on croutons beside cubes of bacon or heaped into stalk-like shavings that turned out to be fat and soft".