What is "bougainvilleas"

Usage examples of "bougainvilleas".

When I finally did return home it was as if, as usual, I had shown up late for my own life, and so I slipped into the hammock at the end of the porch and rested under the dark bougainvilleas.

The restaurant is in a large open portico on the ground floor shaded by bougainvilleas.

And now thirty years later we crawl around in the remains of western civilization, pruning our bougainvilleas and playing our music cubes and going to anthropology class and pretending that we have rebuilt the world out here in the sunshine of California while for all we know people have turned into cannibals five hundred miles east of here.

They got out in an orderly thicket of flame vines, palms, hibiscus and bougainvilleas, and Monk hammered his fist on a carved door.

It was sitting in among the bougainvilleas which, if she turned onto her right side, she could see through the open jalousied window.

He had no chance whatsoever, not with her hair smelling like bougainvilleas, not with that velvet slope of neck, not with those denim-blue eyes.

Carefully I reach through thorny bougainvilleas and pick it up—Janet's toy Mi6, the prop for her SWAT-Cam costume.