Examples of palmy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Serve a crisp cookie with each serving, such as a butter cookie or palmier. Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 22 Oct. 2024 The restaurant serves meat but is known for its palmy vegetables—roasted, smoked, fermented, braised; dished out with plenty of nuts, herbs, seeds, and cheeses. Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024 In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops. Elian Peltier Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023 Painters draw them against tropical, palmy backgrounds. Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023 In the century that followed, Carter’s house was turned into a museum with a green, palmy garden, thanks to water brought in from the Nile. Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022

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“Palmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palmy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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