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As for the fragrance itself, Calvin Klein Women is a woody floral built around three principal ingredients: eucalyptus acorns, orange flower petals, and Alaskan cedarwood. — Marci Robin, Glamour, "Lupita Nyong'o and Saoirse Ronan Are Bare-Faced in New Calvin Klein Campaign—and the Photos Are Gorgeous," 16 July 2018 By the time the powerful chorus erupts, Deadpool himself dances across the stage in an interpretive performance as flower petals rain down from above. — Billboard, "Celine Dion Debuts Epic New Single & Video 'Ashes' For 'Deadpool 2': Watch," 3 May 2018 The real flowers, with their tiny green petals, stigmas and stamens, are best appreciated with a magnifying lens. — Dave Taft, New York Times, "Blaze of Glory," 16 May 2018 When the sun rises in the morning, the SmartFlower automatically unfolds and begins producing energy by setting its petals at a ninety-degree angle. — Megan Barber, Curbed, "Flower-shaped solar panel now sold in the U.S.," 11 Sep. 2018 Barely visible, tiny green petals were the beginnings of her public art project. — Cristela Guerra, BostonGlobe.com, "Artist Ekua Holmes wants to plant hope all over Roxbury," 11 July 2018 The collection, ranging from pendants and earrings to bracelets and rings, was inspired by the idea of flower petals, cut from paper and delicately pinned together. — Kathleen Luppi, latimes.com, "Tiffany & Co. debuts its latest jewelry collection, Tiffany Paper Flowers," 10 May 2018 For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything. — Karen Wright, Scientific American, "Biological Clocks Operate on Many Scales," 21 Jan. 2012 To clouds of falling white petals, dancers clad in patterned bodysuits twisted gracefully to the clicking sound of a metronome. — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, "Dior and Gucci theatrically kick off Paris Fashion Week," 24 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'petal.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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