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Recent Examples of floretNo need to hack up an entire head of broccoli, because frozen alternatives are already chopped into perfectly sized florets.—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 11 Apr. 2025 With broccoli, many people focus on the florets, harvesting the main heads and the successive side shoots.—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025 Roast cauliflower and broccoli florets on a baking sheet in the oven for 10 minutes.—Yakir Levy, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025 Bags of broccoli florets sold at Walmart stores in twenty states, of which at least five are in the South, are being recalled for possible listeria contamination.—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for floret
Broccoli Salad ▪ 3 stalks of brocoli (separated into flowerets)
▪ 1/2 c. chopped green onions
▪ 1 c. raisins
▪ 1 c. peanuts (salted)
Mix together:
▪ 1 c. mayonnaise
▪ 2 T. sugar
▪ 2 T. vinegar
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Rebecca Hancock,
star-telegram,
13 June 2017
Broccoli Salad
▪ 3 stalks of brocoli (separated into flowerets)
▪ 1/2 c. chopped green onions
▪ 1 c. raisins
▪ 1 c. peanuts (salted)
Mix together:
▪ 1 c. mayonnaise
▪ 2 T. sugar
▪ 2 T. vinegar
1.
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Rebecca Hancock,
star-telegram.com,
13 June 2017
True-blue flowers and beautiful burgundy-red fall foliage provide interest from late summer through fall.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 June 2025
Here, traditional saa paper is made by hand from the bark of mulberry trees: soaked, pulped, and pressed into delicate sheets embedded with local flowers and leaves.
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