How to Use efflorescence in a Sentence

efflorescence

noun

• The trees around it have gone generic green, with no hint of their springtime efflorescence.
  — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
• This efflorescence traces back to the groundbreaking developments in the field that took place here in the '50s and '60s.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Sidler says this can lead to efflorescence, or a build-up of minerals on the brick.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022
• The sudden efflorescence of the tech industry in the late ’90s took us from the desert of cubicles to the milk-and-honey offices of today.
  — Photographs By Julian Faulhaber, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2016
• But his platform is more a symptom than a cause—the latest efflorescence from a root system of distrust that has been in place for many years.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
• Start by using a wire brush and hot, soapy water to scrub the brick clean of all dust, dirt, and efflorescence, which are salt deposits that appear as white, crusty streaks.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
• Since the hotel's restoration in the late seventies by oil and gas financier, J.P. Bryan, the hotel has found a new efflorescence.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
• And for reasons that have nothing to do with fascism, even that partial efflorescence may be coming to an end.
  — Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• The glazed red-and-gray brick exterior was cleaned and treated for plant damage and efflorescence.
  — Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 22 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile the wine boom has been accompanied by an efflorescence of the culinary scene.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2023
• Though a corpse flower burst into efflorescence just last month in New York, a single titan arum might only erupt two or three times in its life.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2016
• Collectors, famished by the low-calorie fare of the seventies’ avant-garde, adored the sensuous, cheeky, and grand efflorescence in the painting of the eighties.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• Donnes had grown up on not just the magazine but also the extraordinary efflorescence of talent and humor that came out of it.
  — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
• Donnes had grown up on not just the magazine but also the extraordinary efflorescence of talent and humor that came out of it.
  — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
• The tragic example of Tbilisi during the Saakashvili years looms large in any such national efflorescence.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• At a certain point, her efflorescence seems to depart from linear narrative, demanding a form suited to the artistic flights of the era: collage.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• In the fall of 2011, the Getty launched an initiative to flesh out the story of Southern California's postwar efflorescence as a center for making and exhibiting art.
  — Leah Ollman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Kalanithi died too soon to recant the insights that come with the gradual discovery of one’s own consciousness, and his book is suffused with a proleptic nostalgia for a youth still in its efflorescence.
  — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
• This is the quintessential guitar-rock specimen, a seed for the later efflorescence of prog-rockers and arena anthemists.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• This is important because floor paint won’t adhere to efflorescence.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2020
• The past couple of decades have produced an efflorescence of techniques for decorating sheds and mimicking nature.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021
• Salles is interested not only in the brief efflorescence of radicalism and rebellion in those years.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
• After each new episode of horror, an efflorescence of coptalk prevents us from imagining any alternative way of defining and enforcing the civil peace.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
• This study of Mars is part of the efflorescence of the young field of astrobiology, which includes the search for potentially habitable worlds and the first example of extraterrestrial life.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• For Savouri, the easiest way to understand the efflorescence of theories and valuations being bandied about is to opt for a simple, overarching one: the greater fool theory.
  — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• As his house pares down, ornament sprouts on his person like an irrepressible efflorescence of his inner rococo.
  — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• Several features account for the field’s rapid efflorescence.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 27 Oct. 2020
• Jones' efflorescence in the championship run began with the game plans of offensive coordinator Tom Herman.
  — cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
• Because societies which hurtle toward bright efflorescence tend to rapidly burn out.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2012
• The power of human desire provides a good explanation for the Renaissance efflorescence of portraiture as a major artistic theme.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021

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