How to Use posy in a Sentence

posy

noun
  • Here's a couple of photos of a small child giving Markle some fresh posies.
    — Madison Medeiros, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Queen receives a posy from a small child during a visit to Welshpool, Wales.
    — Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2014
  • At the close of the event, the Queen received a posy of flowers that were part of her coronation bouquet, such as lily of the valley.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Queen Camilla received a posy on her way out of the Garden Museum, and stopped to smell the flowers.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • And 'pocket full of posies' refers to Lil Ricky, who loved to garden, apparently.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Then make a posy, because flowers are beautiful and bring joy.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Nio is probably the best known of the three, and comes with its own posy of fanboys who are nearly as militant as some of Tesla’s advocates.
    — Mark Andrews, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Just two years after that, Taylor would forgo the fuss to marry her next husband, Michael Wilding, in a prim skirt suit, holding a sweet and low-key posy of flowers.
    — Vogue, 25 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes – a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon was waiting in my room, accompanied by a posy of pink roses and a tray of artisanal chocolates and macarons.
    — Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 29 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Similar posy inscriptions have been found on several 17th-century thimbles made in England and Wales.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The collection also has a significant number of posy rings, bearing inscriptions.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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