How to Use snowdrop in a Sentence

snowdrop

noun

• If snowdrop was Homer’s moly, over the ages it was almost forgotten.
  — Matt Kaplan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2015
• These white flowers are sometimes referred to as snowdrops due to their color and shape.
  — Ashley Martens, Redbook, 16 May 2023
• These white flowers are sometimes referred to as snowdrops due to their color and shape.
  — Ashley Martens, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
• Her garden, with her childhood home in the middle of it, is a place of native azaleas and beech trees, of snowdrops and water oaks.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Pollinator plants like crocus, primrose and snowdrops will bloom even when snow is on the ground.
  — Dean Fosick, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• Spring-flowering bulbs such as winter aconites, snowdrops, and grape hyacinths come back for many years.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
• January has two birth flowers—the carnation and the snowdrop.
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 1 Jan. 2023
• The first flower colors have appeared — the white of snowdrops, the yellow of witch hazel, the electric blue of scilla, the purple of the earliest crocuses.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The obvious companion to winter aconites is the snowdrop.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Built by John, Second Duke of Montagu, in the 1770s, its colorful parade of snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils, and bluebells stretch from the house to as far as the moat.
  — Michael Milne, Philly.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• In winter, most gardeners’ thoughts turn to spring and the new crocuses, daffodils, irises, snowdrops and tulips that will be pushing up through the earth and blooming.
  — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
• One trait that has attracted some breeders is the creation of a spiky-petaled flower that, to my eye, is unrecognizable as a snowdrop.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• In Chicagoland, the response to warm weather has included February snowdrop displays and the current buds on daffodils.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• For flowers in spring, plant some of the more shade-tolerant spring-flowering bulbs, such as early daffodils, Siberian squill, snowdrops and grape hyacinths, among your ground cover plants.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Daffodil, snowdrops, crocus and myrtle flowers bear witness to the former human residents of lands now belonging to the parks.
  — cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
• Instead, try planting spring bulbs like snowdrops, crocuses, and miniature daffodils (which are shunned by squirrels rooting for food).
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 12 June 2023
• From climbing winter jasmine to romantic snowdrops, there's something to match every home, soil type, and level of sun exposure.
  — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• Consider Scillas, Squills, grape hyacinths and Galantuhus or snowdrops.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2019
• And those of us who can’t wait for spring to see flowers are planting winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) and snowdrops (Galanthus) that pop up right through the snow in late winter — assuming the seasons actually come in the right order, that is.
  — Cathy Rubin, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Such precise evaluation has turned snowdrop fanciers into botanists.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• Grape hyacinths, crocus, snowdrops, Siberian squill and bluebells can be grown under deciduous trees.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
• The giant snowdrop, Galanthus elwesii, blooms in February.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• Our snowdrops, hellebores and winter aconites, even in their full bloom condition, can easily handle temperatures well below freezing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
• Wildflowers, like delicate white snowdrops and brilliant yellow aconite, are beginning to flower several months early.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024