How to Use efflorescence in a Sentence

efflorescence

noun
  • The trees around it have gone generic green, with no hint of their springtime efflorescence.
    — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Sidler says this can lead to efflorescence, or a build-up of minerals on the brick.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And for reasons that have nothing to do with fascism, even that partial efflorescence may be coming to an end.
    — Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But his platform is more a symptom than a cause—the latest efflorescence from a root system of distrust that has been in place for many years.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile the wine boom has been accompanied by an efflorescence of the culinary scene.
    — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This efflorescence of transparency has had a huge impact on the behavior of the stock market.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • This is important because floor paint won’t adhere to efflorescence.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Start by using a wire brush and hot, soapy water to scrub the brick clean of all dust, dirt, and efflorescence, which are salt deposits that appear as white, crusty streaks.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Donnes had grown up on not just the magazine but also the extraordinary efflorescence of talent and humor that came out of it.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • Donnes had grown up on not just the magazine but also the extraordinary efflorescence of talent and humor that came out of it.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • Because societies which hurtle toward bright efflorescence tend to rapidly burn out.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2012
  • Though a corpse flower burst into efflorescence just last month in New York, a single titan arum might only erupt two or three times in its life.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Several features account for the field’s rapid efflorescence.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Such an efflorescence of freedom marked the zenith of liberalism in 1848.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • An efflorescence of capitalism at home and overseas followed, and with it the beginnings of a colonial empire.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • As his house pares down, ornament sprouts on his person like an irrepressible efflorescence of his inner rococo.
    — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • This includes a season of books mirroring spring’s lively outdoor efflorescence.
    — David P. Barash, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This efflorescence traces back to the groundbreaking developments in the field that took place here in the '50s and '60s.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The past couple of decades have produced an efflorescence of techniques for decorating sheds and mimicking nature.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The sudden efflorescence of the tech industry in the late ’90s took us from the desert of cubicles to the milk-and-honey offices of today.
    — Photographs By Julian Faulhaber, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2016
  • Salles is interested not only in the brief efflorescence of radicalism and rebellion in those years.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a parallel control strategy to spraying rust to suppress its efflorescence.
    — Maryn McKenna, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • This is the quintessential guitar-rock specimen, a seed for the later efflorescence of prog-rockers and arena anthemists.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The tragic example of Tbilisi during the Saakashvili years looms large in any such national efflorescence.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Collectors, famished by the low-calorie fare of the seventies’ avant-garde, adored the sensuous, cheeky, and grand efflorescence in the painting of the eighties.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • After each new episode of horror, an efflorescence of coptalk prevents us from imagining any alternative way of defining and enforcing the civil peace.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Kalanithi died too soon to recant the insights that come with the gradual discovery of one’s own consciousness, and his book is suffused with a proleptic nostalgia for a youth still in its efflorescence.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • The power of human desire provides a good explanation for the Renaissance efflorescence of portraiture as a major artistic theme.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Jones' efflorescence in the championship run began with the game plans of offensive coordinator Tom Herman.
    — cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The latter is an efflorescence of the imagination, often an individual imagination; the former is born of a collective imagining, and is hard-wired to be reborn.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023

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