be in blossom

blossom | American Dictionary

blossom
verb[ I ]
us/ˈblɑs·əm/
(of a tree or plant) to produce flowers that develop into fruit:
The cherry tree is beginning to blossom.
fig. She has really blossomed recently (= become more confident and successful).
blossom
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈblɑs·əm/
a flower, or all the flowers on a tree or plant:
[ C ]The tree was covered with white blossoms.
[ U ]The scent of apple blossom filled the air.

Examples of blossom

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Second, they take from the blossoms of the willow and the broom 'their fertile booty' from which 'they build waxen castles'.
The image of youth as blossoming prevails in personal letters as well.
Everything happens as though the design was a code that comes to life and blossoms in the organic nature of a specific individual.
Cultural arguments have always been considered an important explanatory variable in the development literature that blossomed since the 1960s.
Particularly, youth groups, pan-ethnic groups, environmental and civil rights groups have blossomed.
Transplantation blossomed, this advance greatly improving kidney transplant results and stimulating the proliferation of successful liver and cardiac transplant programs.
What was once the scraggly effort of a few odd individuals has now blossomed into a major field.
From about 6+16 weeks after blossoming, the fruits increase rapidly in volume and weight mostly owing to pericarp growth.
You moved on exactly when this was blossoming.
They also allow us a rare view of a professional acquaintance which very quickly blossomed into a deep friendship sustained during the entire life span of the two protagonists.
The thought blossomed like a magician's bouquet.
Over the last thirty years, geometric modelling has blossomed as a discipline, with implicit shape representations of the form = 0 becoming increasingly popular and now used widely.
Is she good for the literacy classes in which she is blossoming if she refuses to read the news and editorials next to the gossip column?
The focus of chemical-pharmaceutical practice was the extraction of aqueous and oily distillates from vegetable materials such as spices, herbs, blossoms, fruits, seeds, woods, husks, and barks.
The friendship blossomed rapidly but, within a year, had unravelled so totally that the two agreed not to communicate in any form for the foreseeable future.
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