Examples of boll in a Sentence
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Outlines of flowers, leaves and cotton bolls mark the glass panels in the station shelters.
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Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Top things off with uniquely Southern elements, straight from your local florist, nursery, or—even better—your own backyard, like a single cotton boll, eucalyptus flowers, or shiny Elaeagnus leaves.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2023
In Texas in June, cotton plants alarmingly shed their bolls, the hard fruits that hold the valuable fiber, in order to survive the metabolic stress of hot nights.
—WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
The Calico Rose quilt shop in Florence now has one, as do Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, the Todd Farms General Store in Headland, the Hugh Kaul Children’s Zoo Barn at the Birmingham Zoo and even the historic cotton gin just off the town square in Moulton, which boasts a colorful cotton boll square.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 13 July 2022
Paul Ollerton pulled white locks off a cotton boll.
—The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
The bluebonnet has been Texas’ state’s flower since 1901 and beat out the cotton boll and the cactus for that title, according to Texas A&M archives.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894.
—Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
In October's first computer boll based on ratings from JoeEitel.com, Moeller, Badin and Wyoming are all top seeds in their respective divisions.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2022
Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Top things off with uniquely Southern elements, straight from your local florist, nursery, or—even better—your own backyard, like a single cotton boll, eucalyptus flowers, or shiny Elaeagnus leaves.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2023
In Texas in June, cotton plants alarmingly shed their bolls, the hard fruits that hold the valuable fiber, in order to survive the metabolic stress of hot nights.
—WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
The Calico Rose quilt shop in Florence now has one, as do Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, the Todd Farms General Store in Headland, the Hugh Kaul Children’s Zoo Barn at the Birmingham Zoo and even the historic cotton gin just off the town square in Moulton, which boasts a colorful cotton boll square.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 13 July 2022
Paul Ollerton pulled white locks off a cotton boll.
—The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
The bluebonnet has been Texas’ state’s flower since 1901 and beat out the cotton boll and the cactus for that title, according to Texas A&M archives.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894.
—Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
In October's first computer boll based on ratings from JoeEitel.com, Moeller, Badin and Wyoming are all top seeds in their respective divisions.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2022
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boll
noun
: the usually roundish pod of some plants
cotton bolls
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