Sample Sentences for
perennial
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perennial as in:  a perennial stream

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    Dorian Gray desired perennial youth.
    perennial = lasting forever
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    Jean Louise looked at the three Perennial Hopefuls on her right.  (source)
    Perennial = seemingly forever
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    He slammed into one of the stanchions that holds up the monorail track-s perennial irritation to high-speed motorcyclists.  (source)
    perennial = always felt
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    I was the worst possible guardian for him—a black to watch over him in a society that considered blacks subhuman, a woman to watch over him in a society that considered women perennial children.  (source)
    perennial = forever
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    I arrived early, enough time for perennially strong appendiceal cancer survivor Lida to bring me up-to-date on everyone as I ate a grocery-store chocolate chip cookie while leaning against the dessert table.  (source)
    perennially = long-lasting
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    Lay readers and students generally like it, too, which explains why it has become a perennial strong seller.  (source)
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    Needle Nelson, perennially sleepy, dozed in his saddle.  (source)
    perennially = always
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    Two old men who had died of that perennial favorite, Long Illness.  (source)
    perennial = forever
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    I long for one, just one, rubbishy and insolently random and hard to get rid of and perennially yellow as the sun.  (source)
    perennially = always
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    Or a solace, maybe, an easing of some perennial clutch or grab, some taunt of malehood.†  (source)
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    Caroline, though, was perennially innocent, or stubborn, or maybe just plain dumb about this sort of thing.  (source)
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    It was bare of flowers because the perennial plants had been cut down for their winter rest, but there were tall shrubs and low ones which grew together at the back of the bed, and as the robin hopped about under them she saw him hop over a small pile of freshly turned up earth.†  (source)
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    According to Mavis, the space jocks were perennially horny.†  (source)
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perennial as in:  perennial candidate every 4 years

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She is a perennial candidate every four years.
perennial = recurring again and again
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    Business is strong most years, but periods of weak sales are a perennial problem at unpredictable times.
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    Storing food was part of the perennial battle against winter.
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    I have heard some very distressing things about you, my boy....For Princess Poliakova, a perennial victim of her own heart, it had been Oh, as in Oh, Alexander.  (source)
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    Its fragile economy, a life of splendor based on the perennial mortgaging of the next year's crop, was in his hands alone.  (source)
    perennial = recurring again and again
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    But Lenina and Henry had what they wanted … They were inside, here and now-safely inside with the fine weather, the perennially blue sky.  (source)
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    This perennial thorn in NATO's southern flank had flared up a few weeks earlier when a Greek student had run over a Turkish child with his car and been killed by a gang minutes later.  (source)
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    They beat Carver and then played Christian Brothers, a school five times the size of Briarcrest and a perennial Tennessee football powerhouse.  (source)
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    The perennial adolescent riposte.  (source)
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perennial as in:  perennial flower

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    The Black-Eyed Susan is a popular perennial plant.
    perennial = flower or plant that lives more than 2 years
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    I grow grapes, a variety of vines, annual and perennial flowers, and, in one small area, tropical plants.  (source)
    perennial = living more than two years
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    There are a few perennials.  (source)
    perennials = flowers or plans that lives more than 2 years
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    Tulips could not be mixed with perennials.  (source)
    perennials = flowers or plans that lives more than 2 years
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    I had plans for a perennial shade garden.  (source)
    perennial = of plants that survive a long time
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    John and I had done all the work ourselves: raked the leaves and shredded them in the chipper, cut back the dead perennials and mulched the beds, shoveled compost onto the vegetable garden and tilled it, and dug up the dahlia bulbs and stored them in a bucket of sand in the basement.  (source)
    perennials = flowers or other plant that live for over two years
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    Through a narrow door at the back of her shop was that niche with a light green counter where stems had been snipped and roses dethorned, where even now one could find scattered across the floor the dried petals of ten perennials essential to the making of potions.  (source)
    perennials = flowers or plans that lives more than 2 years
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    Buds burst from brown branches, perennials forcing their way tentatively through the dark, claggy soil.  (source)
    perennials = flowers or plants that live along time
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    Plants that do this are called perennials because they come back year after year.†  (source)
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    All through the house there were seed packets and Xeroxed pictures of perennials and biennials and alpines and annuals and roses in every color you could imagine.†  (source)
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    I decided to invite her to inspect the more extensive garden behind the house, and she was plainly happy to follow me there, to walk among the perennials that I'd recently planted in what used to be a small croquet lawn, adjacent to the pool.†  (source)
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    Even today, only cottonwoods and Chinese elms-perennials with a cactus like in-difference to thirst-are commonly planted.†  (source)
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    The air had died in the cypresses in the courtyard, in the pale trappings of the bedrooms, in the dripping archways of the garden of perennials.†  (source)
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