How to Use florid in a Sentence

florid

adjective

• The joyfully florid jumble that is the top of the Adolphus.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
• For all the florid naming, the beers themselves seemed restrained, even polite, on the palate.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• In one, people read a florid passage about trees being cut down.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
• The thing that sometimes got lost with Tom Wolfe, with his white suits and florid style--that gift for the inimitable phrase--was the strength of his reporting.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 15 May 2018
• Opposite him was a bible verse written in florid script.
  — Tom Hanks, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• The one exception is for those with a very red, florid face; this shade emphasizes the redness.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Bruce Mulholland, that florid caricature, is the butt of the joke.
  — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• Now that the rest of menswear is tilting in a florid direction—crocodile skins! vicuña coats!
  — Molly Young, GQ, 20 Mar. 2018
• Instead of whiskey, we’d be fueled by a cocktail of righteousness and florid legalese.
  — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
• Long or short, soft or loud, florid or dry, funny or serious — each prison column lands with a thud.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 Sep. 2021
• And there’s no sign of a florid inscription that was supposedly carved into the box’s side.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• For years, the world looked to Coco Chanel for florid descriptions of what is or is not luxurious.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2022
• Eighty years later, the spread of railways led to a construction free-for-all in the suburbs, as well as the florid era of Victorian house names.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2020
• By contrast, in the painting’s warm, dusky hues, Napoleon is a florid pillar of unperturbed, even heroic strength.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Few places better reflect the florid diversity of language — and its fragility — than the forests of Brazil.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• When embracing winter whites from the neck down, florid notes worn above strikes an eye-catching balance—at least in the world of Jennifer Lopez.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
• Browne was inside in an airy rehearsal room with florid crown moldings and softly glowing globe lights.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• John was also famous for never letting clarity get in the way of florid prose.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Here Weiss’ florid pianism, drummer Fludas’ fat downbeats and bassist Vinsel’s sizable tone made for the most vivid statement of the show.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• Not the florid English style, but the stories themselves, the imagination behind them.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
• In Spanish home design, the prominence of courtyards, patios, and florid gate designs has been passed down for centuries, Vázquez said.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• And yet the language only becomes more florid, even Shakespearean.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
• But thanks to a few stars who are loyal to florid fingertips, nail art is never going to disappear.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 Dec. 2023
• Millet does not, as her younger self might have, gleefully inhabit the florid mind of a MAGA voter.
  — Christine Smallwood, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The series is chock-full of ball sequences, which are lively and colorful—and emceed with a perfect florid purr by Billy Porter.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 30 May 2018
• Hausmann’s rendition seemed valid, if less florid than the Kronos’s version.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The taste inspires the kind of florid language usually reserved for a vintage wine: chalky, sweet, vegetal.
  — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• The film opens with Cyrano disrupting a crass play and running the lead actors off the set in a fit of pique, leading to a handful of duels and plenty of florid dialogue.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Readers were taken aback by myriad aspects of Christie’s florid essay, which runs nearly 4,000 words.
  — Raul A. Reyes, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
• If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024