How to Use bluebell in a Sentence

bluebell

noun

• In another key scene, the two ride out into a wood filled with bluebells.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 June 2017
• In April, bluebells were waving across the hillside in a thousand shades of blue, pink, lavender and white.
  — Margo Rabb, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• Virginia bluebells are the opposite of tulips and daffodils in this way.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 27 May 2017
• The Virginia bluebells bloom every spring and the sweet pepperbush fills the late summer garden with its scent of cloves.
  — Perdita Buchan, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2017
• Nothing will get you in the mood to spring forward like a bouquet of spring jokes, spring one-liners, and spring puns, which pop up alongside tulips, daffodils, and bluebells.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2017
• Built by John, Second Duke of Montagu, in the 1770s, its colorful parade of snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils, and bluebells stretch from the house to as far as the moat.
  — Michael Milne, Philly.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Set your table and embrace the ’70s-Laurel Canyon aesthetic, or adorn your bed with soothing bluebell blooms.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 May 2022
• In 1930, the company changed its name to Blue Bell Creameries after the native Texas bluebell wildflower.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Right now anemones in bright colors because it’s winter, or primroses and wild violets and bluebells in spring.
  — Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2019
• In a scene that epitomizes the film's discreet but charged sensuality, Michell, Eley and the two leads transform a lovely bluebell wood into a place charged with omen.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• Visitors will be seeing the parks in peak spring bloom with bluebells, peonies, wisteria, roses and more at their most colorful.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
• The lisianthus varieties grown in gardens and for the cut-flower market today were bred from American wildflowers, hence the common names prairie gentian and Texas bluebell.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 27 June 2022
• These plants were the top species magnets: black willow, a goldenrod named Euthamia graminifolia, Virginia bluebell and New York ironweed.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• The UK’s National Trust has come up with a stunning virtual bluebell experience for people all over the world—no plane ticket required.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2020
• Terms to describe the natural world—such as acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, otter, raven and willow—have been banished to make room for such chilly contemporary words as blog, broadband and bullet-point.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Ecology undergraduate researcher Karen Wang drops her fine-mesh bee net, whips out a small recorder and leans in to observe Yellow 54 climbing into the bluebell’s long tubular blooms.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
• The bluebells arrive, like an iridescent blue carpet below, spreading along hedgerows, suddenly swamping forests and copses, emerging out of the rotten, sodden leaves of last autumn.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
• Irises, lupines, purple wisteria, tulips, dahlias, bluebells, daffodils, hyacinth, pansies, and pink verbena add color to the grounds.
  — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 5 May 2017
• Grape hyacinths, crocus, snowdrops, Siberian squill and bluebells can be grown under deciduous trees.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
• The Hallerbos Forest is particularly known for its thick blanket of bluebell flowers that bloom in the spring, making this forest completely enchanting –– almost like a fairy tale.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2021
• The meticulous floral border is meant to reflect a British wildflower meadow with lily of the valley, cornflowers, wild strawberries, dog roses and bluebells, plus a sprig of rosemary for remembrance.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
• The population of one of the marmot's foods, tall bluebell flowers, began to decline in 2000, just before the marmot population surged; this might have altered the marmots' diet, leading them towards fattier foods [Nature].
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2010
• The homegrown selection includes ferns, Virginia bluebells and wood poppy for shady gardens, as well as plants that attract pollinators, such as cardinal flower and coneflower.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• For those whose self-understanding is wrapped up in bluebells and tea, in English accents divided solely by class and region, in a nearly all-white and all-English country for centuries, these times are culturally terrifying.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
• The invitation's symbolic features continue with a wildflower meadow border that includes cornflowers, wild strawberries, lily of the valley, bluebells, dog roses and rosemary sprig with a ladybird, a wren, a butterfly, a bee and a robin.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Natural light spilled in from massive windows, which overlooked an interior garden brimming with bluebells and flowering magnolias.
  — Brady Dennis, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
• Lovers of native flowers may already be familiar with some of the selections, including various trillium species, Virginia bluebell, wild ginger, cardinal flower, lobelia, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, blazing star and Allegheny spurge.
  — Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
• The kits include resources to help residents complete environmental activities at home and in the community, ranging from planting native California bluebell seeds to participating in neighborhood cleanups.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024