How to Use lily pad in a Sentence

lily pad

noun
  • Plastic frogs work best over grass beds and near lily pads, points and docks.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
  • Palm fronds and lily pads — nature’s sedative — are all over the place.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Try plastic frogs and lizards over lily pads around the lake at daybreak for bass.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
  • These lily pad nails that look like a whole Monet painting.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • If there are remnants of milfoil or decayed lily pads in the area, that’s a plus.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Nothing gets a bass angler more fired up than spotting a patch of lily pads in early summer.
    — Ben Duchesney, Field & Stream, 3 July 2024
  • Rods and lures safely stowed, the paddling anglers head past the swampy banks and cast their lines through the reeds and lily pads.
    — Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Zion takes cover behind a statue of Buddha in the lily pad pond, and a corpse floats by.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Try surface plugs, plastic frogs and lizards near and over hyrdilla beds and lily pads throughout the chain at daybreak.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 June 2018
  • The Pond area is for toddlers and features board books and themed décor such as lily pads, turtles and fish.
    — Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The lobby’s circular floor plan gives the illusion of a lily pad floating atop a koi pond.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • Paragons of chill, the equivalent of three buddies drinking a few beers, too tired to get up off their lily pads/sofas.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • To capture the image, Gross peered under the surface layer of lily pads.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The story goes that Brown’s wife made the cookies as big as the lily pads that frogs sat on in a pond outside the restaurant.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Hundreds of lily pads float amid the cattails, some gnarly-edged from too much sun, others bursting with buttery yellow buds.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
  • The boat slid downstream, the water creating a lane lined with lily pads and gently bowing water grass.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
  • These people spent anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, in some cases months, at these third country lily pad sites.
    — ABC News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Pike were lurking under every snag, in every patch of grass, beneath each clump of lily pads, along the mar gin of every rush bed.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The male blackbirds tend to perch atop cattails, while the females spend more time on the ground, foraging and hopping around on lily pads.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Little, golden globules of fat are pooling on the surface like Monet lily pads.
    — Adam Rapoport, Air Mail, 23 May 2026
  • In the summer, lily pads dot the water’s surface and colorful dragonflies flit about.
    — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Gaze at the lily pads from a bench by the pond, wander around while listening to the audio tour, or just sit with your journal and people-watch.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
  • All the while, a shimmering lily pad chandelier illuminates the room from above.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The turtle is visible just beyond the duck, its shell imitating the nearby mess of lily pads.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 July 2023
  • In one direction, paths lead to ponds filled with lily pads; down another, a smooth arc of white concrete rears up from beneath an earthen lid.
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • The river flows past continuously, its brown waters dotted with green islets of hyacinths and lily pads.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
  • To our left was the seven-hundred-year-old Oude Delft canal, its still surface covered with lily pads and floating trash.
    — Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One of them admitted firing about 30 shots from a SKS rifle at lily pads.
    — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But then, millions of western toad tadpoles began their migration from the lake’s depths to the lily pads and shallows above, to feed on the algae.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In the morning room, Fromental wallpaper hand-embroidered with lily pads set the tone.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2026

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