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Sentence Examples His eyes, once clear orbs of deep purple, were clouded and almost lilac in shade. Upstairs the master bedroom with exposed stone walls on two sides has been stylishly decorated in lilac with off-white carpeting. Soft colours such as lilac, rosy pink, light green and silver create a light-hearted effect. His eyes were pale lilac, coloured contacts she mused, and they seemed to sparkle in the light like jewels. She likes to wear frosted plum lipstick and opaque lilac eyeshadow to match it. The girl was about an inch shorter and wearing a dress of lovely lilac satin. The trees that are said to have the worst litter are the Persian lilac and babul. She carried a large teardrop bouquet of cream roses, lilac freesias, fern, silvered bear grass, variegated ivy, gypsophila and eucalyptus. The table in front of her was covered with a pale lilac lace tablecloth and the silver tea set rested upon it. After throwing on my oldest pair of jeans and aqua and lilac tie-dyed T-shirt, I made it to the meal tent. In one gray plastic bin a lilac cardigan, neatly folded, nestles against a small black canvas tote. The bridesmaids wore lilac strapless gowns with puddled trains, and carried smaller versions of the bride's bouquet. It was lilac, strapless, had a short train, the top was form fitting, but the bottom billowed out slightly when I walked. Not only that, but each June they put on a spectacular show as they burst into misty pale lilac bloom. Also featured there is a display panel in the corporate blue of the university's logo, plus green and lilac to blend with the furnishing. The magnificent shades of lavender-purple and white blossoms with their heady show and sweet fragrance renewed my love affair with the lilac. I found a lovely bedspread in lilac and goldstrips, but it was mucho expensive. But another idea would be to buy unpainted furniture, and paint it a lilac in a few shades darker than the walls, with black trim. Sure enough she was wearing her Sunday morning church dress, and all the way up on the landing, Troy could smell her mothers lilac perfume. Growing around the corner were large lilac and snowball bushes that had long since lost their blossoms. Show More Sentences It was a dark purple sleeveless dress, trimmed with lilac beads around the neckline and the hem. She sits up in her light lilac nightie with the summer bed sheets surrounding her on their thick feather stuffed bed. Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-orange and spirea. Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood. Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, Mayflower, wood lily, purple aster, apple blossom, and the evening primrose. One has brought along some curious lilac fluffy spheres attached to a hairband, which she informs me are earmuffs. Today he is wearing a hand-knitted turquoise sweater, dark blue cords, lilac socks and a striped shirt of cobalt and pink. The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies. By the same token, few Wall Street firms would be thrilled with a home page that's a symphony of pink and lilac. Samuel's lilac suit features a peek-a-boo organza strip that cuts away from the linen it's made from. The perfume of its tiny lilac flower heads will scent a room in summer months. He even went so far as to design colour co-ordinated lilac outfits for the servants. It has pinnate leaves and racemes of lilac pink flowers, which are slightly fragrant. There was the lilac coloured dress which rested at my ankles and had all these weird flaps of cloth everywhere. She wore a lavish lilac fishtail dress made especially for the occasion by her mum. I had whooping cough, was sick for a week or two and convalesced in bed under the lilac tree in our back yard. Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance. The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers. It works well in crevices and for a damp spot in semishade there is a lovely lilac blue variety, corydalis flexuosa. A lilac purple with touches of green and gold make the dining area welcoming and elegant, cosy but posh. Show More Sentences If needed, prune bridal wreath spiraea, forsythia, lilac, mock orange, quince, and wiegela immediately after flowering. She carried a teardrop shower bouquet of ivory roses and carnations, with lilac freesias and trailing ivy. This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing. Julie's wearing what's apparently called a Roberto Collina 258003 and an Ailanto lilac print pleated skirt. Other dishes from the mountain include chicken stewed with siliquose pelvetia, coral herbs and hill lilac. Elizabeth showed Aaron her lilac bushes, which she'd planted herself and nursed until they were hearty and all abloom. The blossoms upon the lilac tree looked waxen in the pale light and filled the air with heavenly fragrance. White was combined with a rainbow of colours including lilac, baby pink, lemon, acid green and turquoise candy stripes. Her hood had been left back and her glossy raven hair had been tied up with a deep lilac ribbon. I headed for the white alabaster vase and shoved the lilac stems down its throat. Visitors to the garden will notice juniper, ash, walnut, mountain ash and beech trees as well as jasmine, honeysuckle, lilac, lilies and tulips. Each had its gay little garden, its shrubbery of lilac, holly, or laurustinus, and its creeper-covered porch. Some are white, many in hues of lavender and lilac, pale mauves and deep purples, and a host of other colors. With harmless colours like a mild metallic lilac and beige, it looks more like a feminine home appliance than traditional home office equipment. Upstairs, Karen's bedroom, decorated with shades of her favourite colour lilac, remains exactly as she left it. During anthesis, petals gradually lose their colour, becoming completely white or pale lilac by the end of anthesis. With lovely chiffon dresses in colours like lime, lilac, rose, and lemon yellow you can indulge yourself. Several clouds had blanketed themselves out across the hills and mountains in the distance, dark lilac over darker purple. I picked a lovely lilac and Lauretta decided on velvet scarlet. On the morning we meet she is casually dressed in black satin combat trousers, a black T-shirt under a lilac, lace-trimmed cardigan worn with black trainers. Show More Sentences Spectacles held together with Elastoplast and a curry-smeared tie helped round out the character, as did a pair of greying slacks and lilac shirt that clashed violently. The department is luxuriously decorated in the brand's signature lilac colour, with suede lined shelving and deep carpets surrounding a large circular seating area. She was a beautiful lilac colour and her tail was luxurious, although not so luxurious as my own, and her long face was capped with two perfectly shaped ears. Bird's-eye primrose has pink or lilac flowers and dusty looking leaves. Her racks hang with pretty jewelled objects in smoky lilac, pink topaz and biscuit, contrasted with intense hues of sunshine, azure, coral and violet. His latest collection, the first since his two-year hiatus, features colours like orange, white, black and lilac, using material like English twill, linen and soft leather. Pulsatilla, the pasque flower, is a real stunner with showy lilac flowers and you'll find an excellent specimen at Glasnevin in the Sensory Garden. Black coats, delicate sheer blouses in white chiffon and satin dresses in gold, silver, pale pink and lilac completes the picture of perfect style. I get the feeling that yellow and lilac are your favourite colours. A pair of lilac colored eyes swam dizzily in his unsteady vision. On the bit of garden outworks bounded by the wall is a little group of rowans and lilac, and beneath them grow more daffodils, which we have never noticed particularly. Girls will be enticed by the sweet-as-sugar-candy bras, camis, hipster boy shorts and strings, and sassy sleepwear mix and match in peppermint, lilac, hot raspberry and pink. It houses over 50 individual birds made up of 12 different species including the sacred ibis, crowned cranes, hammerkop, white-cheeked touraco and lilac breasted roller. Everyone loves the drooping fragrant lilac tassels of Wisteria, but it is not a plant for a small garden, particularly as your neighbour may not relish a Wisteria invasion. Interesting flora includes purple devil's bit scabious and lilac field scabious, the yellow daisy-like common fleabane and the tall, cream-flowered meadow sweet. To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace. Grey is out in favour of coral, mint green, lilac and navy and white. Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets here and there. Where they grow the land from a distance looks not red, but lilac. Trim trousers in nubby shades of lilac were paired with jackets in iridescent hues of melon. Show More Sentences Garden-friendly choices include California lilac, coffeeberry, monkey flower, toyon, and white sage. He'd broken the stick out of a lilac hedge a block from their house. The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species, occasionally blackish purple or yellowish. Its petals are white, pink or lilac, while the capsules are green, turn yellow when ripe, and dehisce easily when dry to release seeds. Sky and soft sunlight tint the snow blue, pink, lilac, peach. So, too, will the beauty bush, mock orange blossom, the flowering current, lilac and Weigela. Plant California wild lilac in unamended soil in full sun, allowing plenty of room for it to spread. The flowers are solitary on short stalks, petals purple or lilac, much longer than the calyx lobes. I have recently seen several high-visibility areas where red, pink and white carpet roses were combined with lilac and white trailing lantanas. While most big-name actors show off their status with luxury cars, actress Julie Hesmondhalgh has gone for a lilac caravanette. Lilac or indigo stones are best, such as pale amethyst, tanzanite, iolite, lilac charoite and lilac jade. The eggs of the Atlantic puffin are typically creamy white but the odd egg is tinged lilac. And wild lilac invites mockingbirds, thrashers, bushtits, and finches to nibble on its berries and to seek shelter among its leaves. Now when we go down the garden in the spring instead of lilac bushes, laburnum and mock orange trees we shall see rows of line posts and washing lines. The Hell's Kitchen star will sell the meals in lilac and white boxes at Sainsbury's and Whistlestop train station stores or via home delivery website In2delivery. In California's Santa Ynez Mountains, the striped insects tend to be more common on a plant called chamise while the unstriped ones predominate on blue lilac. The lilac flowers of Callicarpa Profusion are delightful in summer, the pinkish autumn foliage is beautiful and the masses of purple fruit in winter are amazing. Shorter still, at just 10in tall, is Mother of Pearl, which comes in shades of grey, soft blue, lilac, peach dusky pink and white with charming speckled and picotee bicolours. Plant species composition for each site varied slightly, but all contained California lilac, coffeeberry, California buckwheat, toyon, elderberry and coyote brush. Suitable candidates include roses, deutzia, lilac and viburnum. Show More Sentences Trailing among the nasturtiums is Cuban oregano, with cream-fringed leaves that are the perfect foil for the pale lilac flowers of English Wedgewood' thyme at right. Feminine ruffles on one-piece cutout monokinis, new under-wired bandeaus and halter styles were paired with muted jewel tones in coral, sky blue, lilac, black and cream. Examples from Classical Literature The bead tree, so called from the seeds being used for rosaries, bearing much-branched panicles of fragrant lilac flowers. The hardy ornamental shrubs, honeysuckle, lilac, mock-orange and spirea Van Houttii can be grown here. The mezereon differs in blossoming before the leaves are produced, while the flowers are lilac instead of green. The stone was said to be spodumene, of a very high class, and had a a lilac tint theretofore unknown. It serves for reds and pinks, and enters into the composition of puce and lilac. No more, no more will robins nest within their lilac shade, for they are folded now and pressed, and with the mothballs laid. One very solid windbreak is made up of a lilac hedge, four rows of jack pine, four rows of Norway poplar and one row of willow. Pamela's contained a rather short-waisted frock of lilac silk, with a fichu of chiffon tied softly round the shoulders. It is our holly, as the ceanothus is our lilac, and the poison-oak is our autumn-red sumac. Blue myrtle is a California species, sometimes called wild lilac or blue blossoms. The azaleas were already budding, the ceanothus getting ready its lilac livery for spring. It was doubtless the face of Marie, examining the buds on her lilac bushes. Under this same lilac bush was found a top boot, which turned out to be the fellow of the boot already found in the bedroom. This mariposa lily is usually white, though delicate lilac blossoms are sometimes found. McCay was the sort of man who keeps old ball programmes and bundles of letters tied round with lilac ribbon. It was when the lilac and the laburnum were in full bloom and the air was sweet with scent. At the sides of the house were bushes of lilac and guelder-rose and privet, entirely hiding the farm buildings behind. The distant Chiricahua range, at the foot of which nestled the Newcomb ranch, was hung with a misty lilac haze. Farther on are close green tufts of the corydalis, with its delicate lilac flowers. There were damask Roses, and yellow Roses, lilac Crocuses, and gold, purple Violets and white. Show More Sentences If he did not kiss the lilac he was sure to suffer an affront. The turf is starred with lilac gentian and crocus bells, but sparely. There are eyeshadows in purple, blushers with a pinky lilac tinge and plummy lipstick. It's closed away from the lawn by a mixed hedge of forsythia and lilac. I gave her a spray of lilac, I remember, and you gave her a franc. Then the shirting is extreme and there is a lilac smell and no ginger. It was a little dialogue between asters and sweet-peas, wild canaries in the lilac bush, and the guardian spirit of the garden. Walking across the yard, passing a snowdrift by the lilac tree, he went into the cowhouse. A design is then stencilled on the four strips in lilac and green. She put on a lilac silk gown, for the party, and an embroidered muslin apron and tippet. He crouched entirely concealed by a great lilac bush, which many times before had hid his traitorous form. The warm air was heavy with the scents of lilac, honeysuckle, and syringa. Linda entered the street car for her daily ride to lilac Valley. Something had happened in lilac Valley that had changed his perspective. They are of a grayish or buffy color spotted with umber and lilac. So, to pick out the heathery tones in this, I decided to decorate the room in lilac and purple. Cropped Trousers, com pastel tones, like the minty green Hocus Pocus or the soft lilac Who-Dini. A history of lilac hybridizers is provided, including those in Russia and China. No vegetation visible yet but the red maple, weeping-willow, and lilac. So I can just add a word about the lovely new summer lilac or buddleia. Show More Sentences Zenith is a beautiful blue form and Blue Peter has shades from yellowcentred petals to lilac outers. On the one side, enjoy peridot background with aqua and lilac highlights, and on the reverse-an aqua background with peridot and lilac twists. Beside the white lilac, there was a great elm and a yellow birch. Take Mr Podsnap's word for it, and the soberest tints of drab, white, lilac, and grey, were all flaming red to this troublesome Bull of a young person. Late-spring ornamental onion, nectaroscordum, has an umbrella of bell-shaped, creamy green flowers flushed with lilac on stiff stems in May and June. He caught a breath of lilac scent from a closed florist's shop. There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk, when Maimie arrived in time to see a magnolia and a Persian lilac step over the railing and set off for a smart walk. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with lilac What is the plural of lilac? What is the adjective for lilac? What is the noun for lilac? Translations for lilac Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Lila lila Lil li'l lil Likud Lilac lilacs Lili liliaceous Lilias lilied 5-letter Words Starting With l li lil lila