Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors.
1 No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.
2 He reached out and plucked a green carnation from behind Truck's ear.
3 It wasn't a rose, it wasn't a carnation , it wasn't a dahlia.
4 Yes, that is what I smell, like a clove carnation - it is divine.
5 She was a small, lantern-jawed woman with a carnation on her lapel.
6 She was pink and white like a carnation , and heavy with scent.
7 You think I ought to start wearing a carnation to work?
8 In his mouth was a cigarette, and in his buttonhole a pink carnation .
9 His bow was but a repetition of the scandalous red carnation .
10 His bow was like a repetition of the scandalous red carnation .
11 He was admired for wearing a carnation and changing his tie every night.
12 The second day he only wore a pink carnation and a grey waistcoat.
13 And Sidney went upstairs and put away a single white carnation very carefully.
14 A leaf hanging from one of the carnation stems suddenly dropped.
15 She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation .
16 Margot giggled again and flung a carnation across the table at old Lampert.
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