How to Use cress in a Sentence

cress

noun
  • Thale cress was planted in moon soil, and the good news was all of the seeds sprouted.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • Layer roast beef and cress on bottom, then top with pickled onions.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2018
  • The radishes, cress and rye all grew to a point where seeds could be harvested.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Fold in nearly all of the hazelnuts and cress, then transfer to a platter.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
  • Cold-hardy flowers include snowdrops, hellebores and alpine rock cress.
    — Jackalyn Beck, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Whitetop, or Hoary cress, is a very tough perennial weed that spreads by rhizomes and seeds.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
  • There were other challenges to getting those cress seedlings to germinate.
    — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • But by the sixth day, the plants in lunar soil began to grow differently than the control group of thale cress.
    — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • The researchers duplicated their work in thale cress, a flowering plant.
    — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
  • New to the market this week from Rempel Family Farm is kale and cress.
    — Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
  • Purple cress is just about to bloom at Hubbard Valley Park in Seville.
    — cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
  • Hikers will also encounter flowering spring beauties and spring cress.
    — cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
  • In the Salk study, scientists worked with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • The plant is also known as thale cress, which can produce small white flowers and is native to Eurasia and Africa.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • The bon bon-like rounds of liver are coated in a mandarin gelee, accented with coconut cream and a scattering of winter cress.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Rare cresses soften my altitudes.
    — Joe Dunthorne, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Cheatgrass, Canada thistle, hoary cress and emerald ash borer complete the top 5.
    — Phil Drake, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • They are followed by lamb tomahawk with mint sauce and celeriac, crispy pheasant with applesauce and cress salad.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Kentucky glade cress grows only in parts of Jefferson and Bullitt counties.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2017
  • For a super-flavorful addition to sandwiches or salads, try curled cress.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
  • To make this discovery, the researchers looked at what happens when dodders infect a kind of cress—Arabidopsis thaliana.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
  • This shampoo contains Indian cress, an exotic plant that promotes new hair growth while adding moisture.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The moth trinity is more closely related to similar genes in silkworms, while the plant ones are a closer match for genes in the mustard cress.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
  • This pasta also goes extremely well with a peppery mix of arugula or cress with bitter chicories that will stand up to the extreme savoriness of this short rib ragu.
    — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Scientists have even sent the thale cress to the International Space Station and the moon.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
  • The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research.
    — Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2014
  • Using genes from wine grapes that cause the fruit to become fleshy and ripen, the researchers have increased the succulence of mouse-ear cress, creating leaves that store more water than normal.
    — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The researchers examined seeds from Arabidopsis otherwise known as thale cress—a plant commonly used in studies due to its short life cycle.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
  • As the green sprouts and spreads, the image — a negative depicting a family and projected directly onto cress panels — will fade away.
    — Nargess Banks, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • There are a few vegetables that do not bode well in the freezer including cabbage, celery, cress, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, radishes and potatoes.
    — Justin Miller Communications Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 6 June 2023

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