Examples of green fingers in a Sentence
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Like gardening, some chemists have green fingers and can seem to make almost anything grow, work, reactions go.
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Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
Then in late June, the flowers finally gave way to a mass of curled green fingers: the unmistakable shape of bananas in a bunch.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
The longleaf pine’s branches arch toward the sky, each bud bursting with spindly green fingers.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
His tiny, green fingers were flared across Waldo’s fur.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
In other words, S.A.I.D. usually looks nothing like Steve, with its long purplish streak and green fingers.
—Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
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Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
Then in late June, the flowers finally gave way to a mass of curled green fingers: the unmistakable shape of bananas in a bunch.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
The longleaf pine’s branches arch toward the sky, each bud bursting with spindly green fingers.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
His tiny, green fingers were flared across Waldo’s fur.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
In other words, S.A.I.D. usually looks nothing like Steve, with its long purplish streak and green fingers.
—Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
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“Green fingers.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20fingers. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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