How to Use florist in a Sentence

florist

noun
  • The hole should be just large enough for a small florist's tube.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Soak a piece of florist's foam in water; tuck in the bowl.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The hole should be just large enough for a small florist's tube ($2, Michaels).
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The tea tastes like lilies fresh from the florist and coats your throat like broth.
    Max Falkowitz, Bon Appétit, 5 May 2022
  • The move instead left in place a state court ruling against the florist.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
  • New York City florist Banchet Jaigla has had to raise prices by about 20%.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Talk to your florist about the best value on non-red flowers.
    Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • His friend explained that at the end of the week, a florist has to get rid of excess flowers.
    Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Skaneateles’s shops run the gamut from pet boutiques to florists.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • To that, the florist shared that the flowers still soak up water through the bottom but more so through the petals.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The unopened note was passed to a florist, who prepared a box of balloons.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That means a local florist is going to be your best bet.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Heck, maybe the local florist’s shop or dry cleaner holds a place in your heart.
    Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
  • So Wilkins teamed with a local florist to figure how to grow it year-round.
    Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The wife is a wedding florist and brings me a fresh bouquet of flowers each month.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Make them with faux fur, black foam tubes, and half-sphere wire forms from a florist's supply shop.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The couple still plans to use the same florist and drive to a halfway point the day before the wedding to pick up the flowers.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2020
  • Break florist picks in half, sticking half in the bottom of each apple and secure it in the florist foam.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • When the farmer and the florists start talking, beautiful things can happen.
    Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • Capel said a florist tipped him off to the restoration, which was completed a few years ago.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The florist carries a lot of expensive items, Works said.
    Landon Bost, The Enquirer, 14 July 2021
  • In the window of a shuttered florist’s, left over from Before: help wanted.
    Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Out of all the professions available, Lily Blossom Bloom wants to be a florist.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There was even a wreath made by the same florist who crafts the winner's handmade arrangement.
    Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Head to your local florist to order all of your prom floral needs.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The high court's decision not to take the case leaves in place a Washington State Supreme Court ruling against the florist.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • Her friend Arduous Wu, a florist, had given her the extra work and paid her cash.
    The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • People left a handful of similar reviews on the Yelp page for the florist, all one star.
    Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 24 Nov. 2020
  • While most florists are overwhelmed by now, Bouqs still has plenty of gorgeous blooms with which to spoil her.
    Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2023
  • There are also more than 100 permanent residents in the White House, including maids, cooks, a plumber, a florist and a head housekeeper, according to Business Insider.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 July 2024

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