How to Use florist in a Sentence

florist

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  • The hole should be just large enough for a small florist's tube.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Soak a piece of florist's foam in water; tuck in the bowl.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The hole should be just large enough for a small florist's tube ($2, Michaels).
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The tea tastes like lilies fresh from the florist and coats your throat like broth.
    — Max Falkowitz, Bon Appétit, 5 May 2022
  • The move instead left in place a state court ruling against the florist.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
  • New York City florist Banchet Jaigla has had to raise prices by about 20%.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Talk to your florist about the best value on non-red flowers.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • His friend explained that at the end of the week, a florist has to get rid of excess flowers.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Skaneateles’s shops run the gamut from pet boutiques to florists.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The unopened note was passed to a florist, who prepared a box of balloons.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That means a local florist is going to be your best bet.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The wife is a wedding florist and brings me a fresh bouquet of flowers each month.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Make them with faux fur, black foam tubes, and half-sphere wire forms from a florist's supply shop.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Break florist picks in half, sticking half in the bottom of each apple and secure it in the florist foam.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • When the farmer and the florists start talking, beautiful things can happen.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • In the window of a shuttered florist’s, left over from Before: help wanted.
    — Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Head to your local florist to order all of your prom floral needs.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Her friend Arduous Wu, a florist, had given her the extra work and paid her cash.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • While most florists are overwhelmed by now, Bouqs still has plenty of gorgeous blooms with which to spoil her.
    — Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2023
  • A few days later, a florist arrived with a sympathy wreath for David.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • At first, the non-profit sold flowers wholesale to local florist.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But Osiria is not up to standards for a contemporary florist rose.
    — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Fortunately, the florist agreed to cancel the order and not charge my credit card.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • Afterward, cast and crew members plucked flowers to take home, and by the next day all that remained were a few blocks of green florist’s foam.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The 24-day occupation came to be known as the Sunflower Movement, which took its name from a florist’s gift to the students.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Frankie was a homemaker and a dental assistant, as well as a florist.
    — Isabella Rosario, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Within a few decades, Americans could pick up the phone and dial the pharmacist or the florist to place an order.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Now Olga is a florist in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has found a way to help their home country from afar.
    — Austin Westfall, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But she's just been to a florist because her treatments make her kind of see colors more intensely.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 July 2022
  • Davis, sweet and popular, often slept in a florist’s doorway.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022

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