Trey Songz

I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.

American Musician

Rachel Khoo

I admit it, I do like pickled red onion. I made some the other day. You just slice up the onion, pull it apart and you get these petals and you make a pickling liquid, I make mine sweet and sour.

British Chef

Ashley Greene

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

American Actress

Bianca Del Rio

Back in the day, when a man in a wig had to 'lip sync for their life,' they relied on a wig reveal, rose petals or picking up their opponent and twirling them around.

American Entertainer

Danny Meyer

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

American Businessman

John Rocha

At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.

Chinese Designer

Kaitlyn Bristowe

Lipstick is so feminine, but there's nothing worse than having a dark merlot stain on a fresh coat of petal pink lipstick.

Canadian Entertainer

Bethenny Frankel

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

American Businesswoman

Olivier Theyskens

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

Belgian Designer

Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Indian Poet

Use 'petal' to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind about the appearance of flowers.

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'Petal' is countable; talk about one petal or multiple petals to indicate quantity.

Countable Noun

Use 'petal' alongside adjectives to describe its color, shape, texture, or condition for more detail.

Descriptive Context

 And Fibonacci stumbled upon his famous sequence while looking at the growth of an idealized rabbit population. Mankind later found the sequence everywhere in nature, from sunflower seeds and flower petal arrangements, to the structure of a pineapple, even the branching of bronchi in the lungs.

Is math discovered or...

 One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,

The complex geometry of...

 And we delight in those aspects everyday, in the rhythm of a song, the beat of the drum, the nod of your head, or in the repetition of soup cans, the rows of an orchard, the artistry of petals. Pattern can be pleasure. In language, rhythm and repetition are often used

The pleasure of poetic...

 They have such exuberant and otherworldly shapes that they occasionally deceive human senses, In their petals we see what appear to be tiny, dancing people, monkey’s faces, spiders, and even birds in flight.

The sexual deception of...

 fellow residents, family, nurses, volunteers, the hearse drivers too, now -- shares a story or a song or silence, as we sprinkle the body with flower petals. It takes a few minutes;

What really matters at...

 leaves and the withered petals and the waters from your fountain and the wind left and my soul wept and said what have you done with the garden that was

Rediscovering ourselves...

 pleasure of murmuring winged creature each petal of rain like you or me each golden home Center a heart like mine a raid in unpretentious glory

This Man’s Words Will...

 soon their blues unfurl as the petals of these strange shaped flowers drop off seed pots begin to form

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 its petals are the colour of blood their surface is tough and warty it appears to have fur

Corpse Flower Stinks of...

 Soon their blooms unfurl. As the petals of these strange-shaped flowers drop off,

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