How to Use morning glory in a Sentence

morning glory

noun
  • Why are the leaves of my morning glories, marigolds and other plants turning tan, then dried and crisp?
    Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 5 Sep. 2017
  • True blue is a rare color in the garden, but 'Blue Daze' Evolvulus, a dwarf morning glory, offers it in spades.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 June 2022
  • The caterpillars feed on leaves of beech, birch, elm, maple, oak, rose and other woody plants, but haven't been observed to feed on morning glory.
    oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The morning glory salad at Jitlada is my go-to salad in the summer, winter, spring and fall.
    Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • No traffic, small patches of green space to grow sunflowers and squash and morning glories, open spaces for the kids to whoosh by on scooters.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The adults are sometimes called morning glory moths, although this is a misleading name.
    oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
  • That’s also an attempt to make our soil less attractive to field bindweed (wild morning glory).
    Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Ong choy, trakuon, pak boong — these are just some of the names for water spinach, also known as morning glory, an iron-rich plant that’s common in Asian stir-fry dishes and soups.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The morning glory muffin, that back-to-the-land sensation of the '70s, became my inspiration.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Four obelisks, after those at Claude Monet’s garden in France, provide room for morning glories and clematis to climb.
    Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Singsanong’s salad starts with fresh bunches of water spinach (morning glory).
    Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • And discoveries from the glorious morning glory could lead the way.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • These are the heftier relative of the morning glory with large, architectural white trumpets that seem to take all season to show up.
    Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • This set of toaster oven-sized bakeware makes small batches of morning glory muffins and BA’s best chocolate chip cookies without the hassle of a lengthy pre-heat time.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Among the chrysanthemums, sunflowers and morning glories are photos encased in clear acrylic sheets of the 10 Black residents killed in the Tops massacre.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 May 2023
  • This includes a small flowering vine called Thurber’s morning glory.
    Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • Residents posted photographs of a girl who had been killed, grinning in front of a wall of morning glories; a crying baby with his right foot blown off; and worse.
    Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Pre-order a brunch kit with spring strata, local greens salad, spelt flour morning glory bread and super seedy granola.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 May 2021
  • Sweet potatoes are members of the morning glory family.
    Terri Milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The installation takes the form of the beach morning glory, a traveling evergreen vine that is present throughout the beaches of Florida and in different parts of the world.
    Cheryl Tiu, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Boat noodles are a specialty: Choose among rice, egg, or flat noodles in a pungent swirl of meatballs, pork rinds, bean sprouts, water spinach (known as morning glory), and beef or pork, topped with cilantro or scallions.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • Its membership in the Convolvulaceae, or morning-glory, family has led to one of its common names: African morning glory.
    Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • So far, however, more than a dozen of the seed types identified by the agency have turned out to be innocuous species such as mustard, cabbage and morning glory as well as herbs like mint, sage, rosemary and lavender.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Purple asters, face-size Queen Anne’s lace, pink morning glories, blurs of yellow, bursts of blooming cacti, and tumbles of vulgar magenta bougainvillea.
    Frances Mayes, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • True yams are part of an entirely different genus (Dioscorea; sweet potatoes belong to Ipomoea in the morning glory family) and are more akin to yuca in texture and flavor.
    Alyse Whitney, Bon Appétit, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In order to give rubber characteristics like bounciness and durability, the people would mix the sap with juice from morning glory plants.
    Emma Yasinski, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.
    Karen Wright, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2012
  • But after glyphosate-resistant crops had a few years to grow, farmers began to notice horseweed and morning glory and other weeds encroaching once more into their fields.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2010
  • That means most consumer-grade fireworks, from Roman candles and skyrockets to pinwheels and morning glories, are prohibited in the Buckeye State.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
  • This boutique sale of colts and fillies carried a high risk for buyers, since morning glories often don't turn into serious racehorses.
    Eric Banks, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2013

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