long-stemmed

Example Sentences

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In the first clip, red liquid — which many assumed was blood — ran down one of the R&B singer’s cheeks like tears as he handed out long-stemmed red roses to people in the audience.

From Los Angeles Times

“You’ll have to waste it. I have in my stores the bones of the chimaera and the blood of the cetus, and the sap of the red urchin. But the blood needs six hours of steaming. And the forest has a bush of long-stemmed dew-wort, but it flowers only in the two hours before dawn. So you will wait.”

From Literature

At a vigil Tuesday night in the alleyway, dozens gathered to remember Lewis, placing long-stemmed white roses in the spot where police say he was attacked.

From Seattle Times

When they charted integer ratios from birdsong and human music, the plots all produced a similar shape resembling a long-stemmed flower.

From New York Times

The result was an otherworldly image, the lower half of a woman’s face with long-stemmed roses replacing the upper part of her head.

From Reuters