How to Use lily pad in a Sentence

lily pad

noun

• Slap some life vests on those kids and go look for lily pads.
  — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• Plastic frogs work best over grass beds and near lily pads, points and docks.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• Palm fronds and lily pads — nature’s sedative — are all over the place.
  — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• Try plastic frogs and lizards over lily pads around the lake at daybreak for bass.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• If there are remnants of milfoil or decayed lily pads in the area, that’s a plus.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
• The story goes that Brown’s wife made the cookies as big as the lily pads that frogs sat on in a pond outside the restaurant.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• The Pond area is for toddlers and features board books and themed décor such as lily pads, turtles and fish.
  — Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• The male blackbirds tend to perch atop cattails, while the females spend more time on the ground, foraging and hopping around on lily pads.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Try surface plugs, plastic frogs and lizards near and over hyrdilla beds and lily pads throughout the chain at daybreak.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 June 2018
• One of them admitted firing about 30 shots from a SKS rifle at lily pads.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Gaze at the lily pads from a bench by the pond, wander around while listening to the audio tour, or just sit with your journal and people-watch.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• To our left was the seven-hundred-year-old Oude Delft canal, its still surface covered with lily pads and floating trash.
  — Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
• Along the south shore stretched a football field-long carpet of lily pads, each one seemingly the size of a dinner plate, their white blooms like light bulbs in the morning sun.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• In the image, Cotton sits next to an in-progress diorama of birds in a Nile marsh, carefully sculpting a lily pad by hand.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• But then, millions of western toad tadpoles began their migration from the lake’s depths to the lily pads and shallows above, to feed on the algae.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• Next to Zack, in the padded area near the lily pad in the older children’s playground, stood Daniel, a 7-year-old but a few inches shorter than his opponent.
  — Joshua David Stein, Curbed, 8 July 2021
• The turtle is visible just beyond the duck, its shell imitating the nearby mess of lily pads.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 July 2023
• In waters like Guntersville and Eufaula, where there is abundant grass, lily pads and moss beds, the frog-fishing bite will turn on as well as more fish return to the shallows.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Sep. 2019
• In the summer, lily pads dot the water’s surface and colorful dragonflies flit about.
  — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2024
• Brookies are common in shallower water around the lily pads.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
• The yard filled up with a quarter foot of water, as if somewhere a levee had collapsed, and the heads of coyote mint and monkey flower became lily pads.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• On a trip to South Korea in 2016, Collins got a tattoo of a nude women sitting on a lily pad in the fetal position, meant to represent her own name.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Allure, 31 Oct. 2017
• In one direction, paths lead to ponds filled with lily pads; down another, a smooth arc of white concrete rears up from beneath an earthen lid.
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 25 July 2018
• All the while, a shimmering lily pad chandelier illuminates the room from above.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2022
• But by July 9, Piper wrote the duckling was accepting small pieces of fish from its adoptive parents, plus snacking on plants like lily pads on its own.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2019
• Kerslake said bass have been spawning in the shallow area, which has lily pads, slender reeds known as buggy whips and scattered hydrilla and Kissimmee grass.
  — Steve Waters, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
• An area where coontail gives way to hydrilla, or where a large log is submerged in milfoil, or where lily pads poke up through the mat here and there, can be more productive than a broad, flat moss mat.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• With a double hook positioned over the bait’s back, the Scum Frog can slide over lily pads, across thick weed mats, and over wood without getting hung up or collecting debris.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The dabbed bits of green represent lily pads, while patches of purple suggest the ways in which light levels and reflections can lend a rich palette to an outdoor scene.
  — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
• There are lily pads with human penises, even some water spiders with human penises.
  — Megan Amram, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024