How to Use lily in a Sentence

lily

1 of 2 noun

• And, of course, this is the prime time to catch the lotus and lilies at their peak.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Just to gild the lily, there’s one more stat to add to the staggering list.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
• If your soil is not well draining plant the lilies in a bed raised above the soil line.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2020
• Frankly, the heavy cream would only have gilded the lily and then drowned it in cream.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 June 2022
• Father John knocks on the back doors, and the lights come on, and there are all these lilies that have appeared.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• To gild the lily for this recipe, some warm spices and musky lime zest tie it all together.
  — Christian Reynoso, Bon Appétit, 25 July 2022
• In the middle are floral notes of jasmine, freesia, rose and lily-of-the-valley.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Also my Asian lily has some green growth under the mulch.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• Heaped like a drooping lily, the roti’s stiff folds and contours have a lavish edge to them.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
• The heart of the scent features pink rose, tuberose, and gardenia, with a base of lily, jasmine, and musks.
  — Tynan Sinks, Allure, 19 July 2022
• Manicured gardens, lily ponds and a tennis court fill out the rest of the 2.4-acre grounds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• Take a deep breath and smell the lilies and paulownia blossoms, warm and blushing in the sunshine.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 May 2020
• Bring some zen to your space with a peace lily, which loves partial shade and a little bit of water.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
• Kate's bouquet featured myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, hyacinth, and sweet William, a nod to the groom.
  — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
• Do not spritz aeroids like pothos, monsteras, or peace lilies — anything with a waxy leafy look, says Satch.
  — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Steinkopf keeps a peace lily in a window that looks out to a covered front porch, which means the plant only gets light in the morning.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• On a Saturday, Victor Abreu, the lily in the swamp, stood in the reflecting pool in a mustard shirt.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• This lily that thrives between spire and tree, whose brightness Holds and glows beyond the life and border of its bloom.
  — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• White roses and lilies were replaced with bright pink, orange and red daisies.
  — Los Angeles Times, oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• A bit like a floating lily, the softbot has a lot of surface area relative to its mass.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• As the product name suggests, each of the four decorative lights is shaped like a lily.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• The Jus Jus smells like wildflower honey and fresh lilies, and tastes like the juicy drippings of orchard fruit.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• The most popular white flower to grow is the classic white rose, but the peace lily is the most popular one to share as a gift.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 30 June 2023
• Those lovely and detailed garden paintings, the lilies and more.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 18 Oct. 2019
• Gilding this lily is a dollop of toum, the wonderful whip of garlic, olive oil and lemon juice.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• On the route, guests can spot violet lupines, purple asters, glacier lilies, and beargrass.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• Even a few grains of pollen or drinking water from a vase that contains lilies can be fatal for your cat.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 15 Mar. 2023
• There, they were greeted by vases full of lilies and roses and platters of cheese and potato chips.
  — Karen Schneider, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the Instagram Story snap, two bouquets of red and white roses and a bouquet of pink lilies and carnations arranged in a woven basket were seen perched on an island in what appeared to be Biles’ kitchen.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• Flowers included tones of pinks, oranges, reds, and yellows and included some of the bride’s favorites—like roses, dahlias, fire lilies, and Dianthus Hollandia.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023

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lily

2 of 2 adjective

• Glass surrounds the east- and west-facing doors for views of the Plaza de Panama and the lily pond.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• The treehouse overlooks a small pond filled with lily pads and frogs.
  — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 21 Oct. 2021
• That is what Bravo brought her on to do, which is to be a shield for its lily-white casts.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 July 2021
• That is what Bravo brought her on to do, which is be a shield for their lily-white casts.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 June 2021
• One suspects the cast will be somewhat less lily-white this time around, for one thing.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Linger at the Farm Pond platforms, watching snapping turtles plow through the lily pads.
  — Jeanine Barone, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• The recipe calls for millet and barley, as well as yam, lily root, and traces of Job's tears, a type of grass native to Southeast Asia.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
• There are some plants — including many lily species — that are out-and-out dangerous to dogs and cats.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• The film is also far more diverse than the lily-white 1984 David Lynch version, whose Fremen are all bizarrely pale.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• An obstacle ropes course features a cargo net, rope bridge, rolling log, a leap across 30 feet of lily pads and a climb over the Kelp Walk.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 20 May 2022
• Choose a giant fish soap-on-a-rope in pomegranate, brown sugar, or lily scents.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2021
• There was one figure, though, who by the mid-1980s proved that the world of stratospheric wealth wasn’t reserved only for the lily-white: Michael Jackson.
  — Casey Michel, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• Circular pleated fans bloomed from the bodice of a pleated number like so many lily pads.
  — Colleen Barry, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Why was this lily farm so good at meeting its deadline while the rest of us struggle endlessly?
  — Christopher Cox, Time, 15 July 2021
• Garlic is the edible bulb of a plant in the lily family, native to central Asia.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 11 June 2021
• Gone are the days of lily-white catwalks and magazine covers and the seedy rationales for why things remained that way.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• The water flows—now unmistakably Stygian—from the lily pond through a narrow channel along the lawn to a basin near the tombs themselves.
  — Max Norman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Yams are a starchy edible root that is a relative of the lily family.
  — Terri Milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2017
• An onion-like member of the lily family, ramps look like scallions but taste like a cross between onion and garlic.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 May 2021
• Rafts line up by the dozens, tangled in the lily pads of a filthy marsh, waiting in the shallows in what is essentially a watery parking lot.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• Vinyl is not just a lily-white phenomenon, either, as the big sales for Lamar last year and Tyler this year would indicate.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 May 2022
• Patrons lounge on oversize lily pads and dance under shower poles.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2021
• Tops of tall trees still rooted in the ground rose up like gigantic lily pads, their trunks deep underwater.
  — Carter Sickels, Outside Online, 3 Sep. 2022
• At the time, the idea that two African-American tennis players could break into the lily-white world of tennis was a novel concept.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
• Now, they are perfectly behaved, peering at lily pads and climbing a tree.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
• The property also features a waterfall, stream and frog pond with lily pads.
  — Nancy Ngo, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
• For the ceremony, the singer took the traditional route, donning a lily-white, silk-tulle gown with a high-low hem and a plunging neckline.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 7 July 2021
• Good Kind Pure's sweet vanilla mist laced with spicy ginger and a lily note for a hint of softness and sophistication.
  — April Franzino, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
• Other plants that should work include creeping lily turf, pachysandra and yellow archangel.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• In one dish that followed, sea buckthorn berries had been broken down into a cool soup in which nasturtium leaves floated like lily pads.
  — Ligaya Mishan Anu Kumar, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022

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