You need to answer a given question containing a blank (_). Your answer must be one of the two objects mentioned in the question, for example "trophy" and "suitcase". Your answer must not contain a word that is not present in the question. Please don't use articles (e.g., the, a) before the answer.

The children loved pulling the flowers but could not pull the weeds, as the _ were very delicate.
flowers

Tyrone found that his thumbs were more sore than his toes after practice because his _ were longer.
toes

The speech was harder for the boy to give in the gym than in the park because there were more people in the _ .

gym