How to Use posy in a Sentence

posy

noun

• Here's a couple of photos of a small child giving Markle some fresh posies.
  — Madison Medeiros, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The Queen receives a posy from a small child during a visit to Welshpool, Wales.
  — Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2014
• At the close of the event, the Queen received a posy of flowers that were part of her coronation bouquet, such as lily of the valley.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2022
• And 'pocket full of posies' refers to Lil Ricky, who loved to garden, apparently.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Then make a posy, because flowers are beautiful and bring joy.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• The young ladies being presented donned traditional long white dresses and kid-leather, white, opera-length gloves, and held posies of red roses.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• There is now a mostly forgotten complex language of flowers in which posies could be coded love letters.
  — A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
• Cliff came back into the living room holding three glasses of milk, balancing them by pressing them together like a squat white posy.
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• All that weeding and planting, mulching and mowing leaves one too exhausted for any but the most enthralling books — such as those in this springtime posy of favorite recent titles.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
• One of the boys who had camped out was Tyler McCrane, a twenty-year-old Floridian with bleached hair, who was wearing a lavender beret and overalls with a posy of plastic flowers stuffed into the pocket.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The tradition started when Queen Victoria was gifted a posy of myrtle flowers by Prince Albert’s grandmother in 1845.
  — Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 3 May 2018
• Receiving posies of flowers has long been a celebrated tradition for female members of the Royal Family.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2019
• During such uncertain times, there is something particularly joyful about bringing nature into our lives through art, even if that means enjoying a posy of Forget-me-Nots hand-painted onto wafer-thin gold, online, at the end of a long Zoom day.
  — Kate Matthams, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The new movie looks and sounds quite fine, and there’s a certain easy pleasure that comes from revisiting cinematically enhanced 19th-century Britain, with its silky frocks, perfectly cut posies and apparently happy peasants.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• Every official greeted and each posy of flowers presented is meticulously scheduled in advance, carefully typed into detailed operational notes carried by palace aides.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024