How to Use posy in a Sentence
posy
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Here's a couple of photos of a small child giving Markle some fresh posies.
—Madison Medeiros, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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And 'pocket full of posies' refers to Lil Ricky, who loved to garden, apparently.
—Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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Then make a posy, because flowers are beautiful and bring joy.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
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The young ladies being presented donned traditional long white dresses and kid-leather, white, opera-length gloves, and held posies of red roses.
—Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 15 Oct. 2017
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There is now a mostly forgotten complex language of flowers in which posies could be coded love letters.
—A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
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Cliff came back into the living room holding three glasses of milk, balancing them by pressing them together like a squat white posy.
—Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
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All that weeding and planting, mulching and mowing leaves one too exhausted for any but the most enthralling books — such as those in this springtime posy of favorite recent titles.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
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One of the boys who had camped out was Tyler McCrane, a twenty-year-old Floridian with bleached hair, who was wearing a lavender beret and overalls with a posy of plastic flowers stuffed into the pocket.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
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The tradition started when Queen Victoria was gifted a posy of myrtle flowers by Prince Albert’s grandmother in 1845.
—Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 3 May 2018
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Receiving posies of flowers has long been a celebrated tradition for female members of the Royal Family.
—Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2019
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During such uncertain times, there is something particularly joyful about bringing nature into our lives through art, even if that means enjoying a posy of Forget-me-Nots hand-painted onto wafer-thin gold, online, at the end of a long Zoom day.
—Kate Matthams, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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The new movie looks and sounds quite fine, and there’s a certain easy pleasure that comes from revisiting cinematically enhanced 19th-century Britain, with its silky frocks, perfectly cut posies and apparently happy peasants.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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Every official greeted and each posy of flowers presented is meticulously scheduled in advance, carefully typed into detailed operational notes carried by palace aides.
—Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2019
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