How to Use flowerpot in a Sentence

flowerpot

noun
  • On the other, cut a slit from the bottom of the flowerpot going up.
    Donna Erickson / Creative Parenting, Twin Cities, 5 May 2017
  • The flowerpots had been placed upright, but were in bad shape.
    oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2020
  • For voles, plant the bulbs in a plastic flowerpot with bottom cut out.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2020
  • There were flowerpot-making stations, a card craft area, lots of snacks, and much, much more.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 10 May 2018
  • The suspect uses his arm to shove the elderly man, who falls to the ground and appears to hit his head on a flowerpot.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Sethi said people in the crowd jumped over the balcony of her ground-floor apartment and shattered a plate-glass door with a flowerpot.
    Ellen Barry, The Seattle Times, 15 July 2017
  • If the smell didn't match, the rats could earn their reward by leaving the flowerpot undisturbed and going around the corner.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2011
  • Elsewhere, Adam realizes that Liam is the person who hit him over the head with a flowerpot at the end of season two.
    Alicia Kortendick, al, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The following night, Madrid placed big flowerpots at the Puerta del Sol.
    Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The flowerpot sat there for more than a month before the baby was discovered.
    Catherine Marfin, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Cutouts from the white pumpkin form striking accents on the base, while a smaller pumpkin holds the flowerpot.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Harry had jumped over the flowerpots and was on my terrace knocking on my patio door.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • Then the doctor turns around, seeing a smashed flowerpot on the floor, and Laura has disappeared.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In a flowerpot, plant bulbs shoulder to shoulder in potting soil with their tops level with the soil surface.
    NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • After the delay, another door opened, leading the rats to a flowerpot filled with sand.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2011
  • Make sure there's no standing water anywhere — on toys left out on the lawn, plates under your flowerpots or garbage in an open can.
    Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2017
  • Make sure there's no standing water anywhere — on toys left out on the lawn, plates under your flowerpots or garbage in an open can.
    Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2017
  • Adults can listen to live rock, pop and other genres from a wine and beer garden while kids paint flowerpots and play music on a pots-and-pans wall.
    Sara Cagle, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Display your eggs in a flowerpot with green fabric to round out your garden display.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Mosquitoes lay eggs in trays under flowerpots and in buckets and trash cans.
    Hints From Heloise, star-telegram.com, 22 June 2017
  • The owner’s son pointed out to curators that the man is not holding a prayer book, as written in some texts, but rather cradling a large flowerpot with a single red rose.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The victim, after checking the house, said only a flowerpot was damaged.
    cleveland, 24 June 2021
  • In Berlin, 300 people blocked Potsdamer Platz, placing couches, tables, chairs and flowerpots on the road.
    Tristan Lavalette, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The seeds can be planted in a flowerpot, the backyard garden or anywhere in need of a little natural beauty.
    Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Know, 1 May 2020
  • Both will get a chance to prove it thanks to a project that provided small flowerpots, seeds and gardening basics to young people involved with Teen Reach.
    Deborah Gertz Husar, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Any dad who spends his free time in the garden will appreciate this homemade flowerpot.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Stick the cuttings into 6-inch flowerpots filled with a mix of equal amounts of sphagnum peat moss and horticultural perlite.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • According to witness accounts, the driver ran and threw items at them, including a flowerpot.
    oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2021
  • After hearing the story, families will receive flowerpots to decorate and seeds to take home and plant.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • Several windowpanes were broken, a flowerpot smashed, a bottle of ink poured over Julia’s new dress.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023

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