Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bloomed
IPA transcription: [bl'umd]
Usage examples
  • The flare bloomed, and he yanked down on the little lever.
  • Wild roses bloomed there, and the murmur of the Long River of Pines was a fit lullaby for faithful Onawandah.
  • Abram caught Maria, and planted a resounding smack on her cheek, where the roses of girlhood yet bloomed for him.
  • And so it was, for as they rode through the pastures the cowslips bloomed on every hand, and Mary's eyes grew bigger and bigger as she thought of her poor garden with its dead flowers.
  • Every piece of fagot in the pile had taken root, and thrown out branches, and appeared a thick hedge, large and high, covered with roses, while above all bloomed a white and shining blossom that glittered like a star.
  • She came to know every flower that grew, and to call them by name, and she always stepped very carefully to avoid treading on them, for Dorothy was a kind-hearted child and did not like to crush the pretty flowers that bloomed in her path.
  • Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name "Camille."
  • On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the greenhouse, marvellous alike to sight and smell, was a billiard-table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth.