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How to use Carnation in a sentence

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Dolly the Mega-Cat may favour a little Carnation Milk as a nightcap, but, always a lady, never nibbles between meals.
Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugal came in from the cold after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
Democracy was restored after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, ending the Portuguese Colonial War.
In group two, Tritoma narrowed the gap from leaders Waxflower following a 4-0 sweep of Carnation.
Previously, he held sales management positions with Fillmore Foods, Avoset Food Corporation, and Carnation Company.
Tinned fruit salad with Carnation milk was runnerup in the survey ahead of Arctic Roll, tinned baked beans with sausages, Battenberg cake and potato waffles.
On the early morning of 25 April 1974, young officers of the Portuguese Armed Forces triggered the almost bloodless Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the Salazar regime.
To the majority of nurserymen, pied wagtails are hardly welcome because they foul tomatoes, and chrysanthemums and carnation blooms.
Growing carnation petals showed high activities of cellulase and pectin esterase.
The name gillyflower is also used for the Virginia stock, the wallflower, and for the carnation of the pink family.
Centered on the crest is the white carnation, with the Chi to the left and the Omega to the right of the flower.
Mention the names carnation, pinks or sweet William and most gardeners will immediately recognize the family of plants.
The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
A member of the carnation family, Spalding's catchfly is a long-lived perennial herb with small greenish-white flowers.
Rose, gladiolus, carnation and dahlia are some of the common flowers that are in style with customers.
In the Munich painting, the artist has rendered the child, eyes straying and unfocused, reaching almost blindly for the Virgin's carnation.
A magazine editor and writer with a literary background, Fry wore impeccably tailored suits, always sporting a carnation in the lapel.
He always wore a dark blue pinstriped suit, waistcoat with a gold fob, a red carnation, a trilby, and an umbrella.
That morning she wore a pretty carnation pink dress, a belt clasped perfectly around her waist.
Dianthus are known by numerous other names, including carnation, clove pink, cottage pink, gillyflower and pinks.
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Lily sits upon the settee by the piano and fastens the carnation in her dress.
It is not a grass but a sedge with leaves rather like those of a carnation.
May flushed a little, and put her hand consciously to the carnation at her throat.
Then off she ran after her father, who had only changed one carnation for another.
The snowy petals, with their lacelike edges, closely resemble those of the white carnation.
The carnation derived its generic name from the latter source.
Its colouring is pink like a carnation in a pale, suffused sort of way.
Jimmie Sullivan had clumped over to Aunt Jane, carrying his carnation.
The carnation, sweet william and pink are all members of which genus of plants?
No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.
In his mouth was a cigarette, and in his buttonhole a pink carnation.
A pink carnation in his buttonhole matched his healthy complexion.
The carnation Maggot can be dug out of the heart of a plant with a needle.
Da Souza was gorgeous in frock coat and silk hat, a carnation in his buttonhole, a diamond in his black satin tie, yet he was not altogether happy.
The fragrance is clean and crisp with masculine undertones and highlights scents including bergamot, grapefruit, fir needle, black carnation, patchouli, musk and amber.
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