How to Use lupine in a Sentence

lupine

noun
  • Her lupine eyes pleaded with him.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The reserve is known for its meadows of sky lupine and goldfields.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The lupines in the low foothills make beautiful fields of purple.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Some, like lupine, grow quickly and prepare the soil for other plants.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • This stretch travels through black oak savanna, with lupine and burly oaks.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2019
  • There’s nothing wrong with being a wolf; most of us are at least a little lupine.
    — B. D. McClay, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In this parallel world, lupine lore tells of a human child who will speak for the wolves.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Dozens of groups have tracked life’s reemergence there, one lupine and ladybug at a time.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the lupine that have come up again in my wildflower garden this year have curled leaves.
    — oregonlive, 20 May 2020
  • But the large sand dunes here (the highest on the Gulf coast) bloom with blue lupine flowers.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The wild lupine that species depends on was getting choked out by invasives.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The ancients noticed this and believed lupines chased away all other plants around them.
    — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
  • These buttes jut upward like the bony ridge of a lupine jaw, sharp and carnivorous and ragged.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Here lupine provide the foreground with pink poppies in the background.
    — Nicole Cammorata, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • By midsummer, though, shoots of lupine and fireweed were peeking through the ground.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • On the route, guests can spot violet lupines, purple asters, glacier lilies, and beargrass.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • This includes plants like bee balm, black-eyed Susan, columbine, foxglove, and lupine.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Look for mountain mule’s ear, pussypaws, snow plant, western wallflower, corn lily, and lupine.
    — Deb Hopewell, AFAR Media, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If they were injured in the course of this lupine marauding, the wounds would appear on their human flesh.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Behind the store, the hill was covered with green grass, orange poppies and lavender lupine.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • Some of these flowering plants include bee balms, columbine flowers, daylilies, lupines and petunias.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2023
  • My seat is a cushion of moss, lupines, bearberry and nearby blueberries now ready to pick.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Around them are meadows of mule’s ears and purple lupine, sagebrush fields, and thick forests that dip to a river, then surge up the peak.
    — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Early blooms include bush lupine and black sage, and hotter months bring orchids, buckwheat, and roses.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Some of her favorite plants to add to attract hummingbirds are bee balm, lupine, salvia, columbine and penstemon.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2020
  • An understory of ferns, lupines and tall grasses laps at the legs as hikers take on the gentle inclines.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Keep an eye out for grass widows, prairie stars, shooting stars, lupine, and Indian paintbrush.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Robust stands of oak arch over the footpath that’s lined with lupine and globs of russet basalt that confirm the hill’s volcanic origins.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 7 June 2019
  • Coulter’s lupine recently joined the party.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The dampness heightened the fragrance of blooming lupine, filling the woods with the delicate smell of grape juice.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022

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