Use tree in a sentence
Sentences starting with tree
- Tree blew down in my woods (that were) in 1852. [6]
Sentences ending with tree
- Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
- Spring had as yet lured no leaves from the boughs, but there were many objects to be seen in the bare top of the tree. [10]
- You've heard the words of the song--the river drivers sing it: "'What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree? [11]
- We didn't think whether it was sad or not, we only knew it pleased our ears, and we wanted those sweet fields of Eden, and the blooming tree of life, and the rest under the tree. [11]
- The Honourable Adam was some time in picking out a convenient tree. [9]
- Herr Berthold Vorchtel was just such a noble, reliable tree. [10]
- Then my daughter was beautiful, and her body was like a swaying wand of the boolda tree. [11]
- At last it was a good deal worried, and climbed a tree. [5]
- It is the very bower of young love, and must have done more than any growth of the forest to soften the doom brought upon man by the fruit of the forbidden tree. [6]
- These are the unerring guides, who have pointed out to me in Darius a plant, that will one day wax into a mighty tree. [10]
Short sentences using tree
- She had seen the Tree. [5]
- I showed him the tree. [5]
- The tree was apparently rare. [5]
- The bullet struck a tree. [5]
- Behind a tree? [11]
Sentences containing tree two or more times
- At first I was strongly interested in the tree, for I was told that it was the renowned peepul--the tree in whose shadow you cannot tell a lie. [5]
- In time the trunk and every branch and twig are incased in hard pure ice; so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass--glass that is crystal-clear. [5]
- They had expected to see Nic; but Nic was on his way to the horse beneath the great elm tree, and from the elm tree to the State of New York--and safety. [11]
- The tree, where there had been no tree before--that helped. [5]
- Presently she discovered that the notes were those of a bird on a tree immediately outside of her window--a tree of wonderful perfection, the lower branches of which swept the ground. [9]
- It frightened the squirrel from tree to tree and followed it up until both were out of sight in the forest. [5]
- A veteran in retirement, the Colonel is living under his vine and fig tree on the lake at Rossiter; the vine bears Catawba grapes, of which he is passionately fond; the fig tree, the Bartlett pears he gives to his friends. [9]
- Long, stinging cry of a locust comes in from a tree, half a mile off; had forgotten there was such a tree. [6]
- There were, however, marvels to stir her, strange landscapes, cities, seas, and ships,--once a fire in the forest of a western reserve with gigantic tongues of orange flame leaping from tree to tree. [9]
- He also presently discovered that all these trees were bound together, near their tops, by fourteen great ropes, one above another, which ropes were continuous, from tree to tree, as far as his vision could reach. [5]
More example sentences with the word tree in them
- Did you take your saddle up in the tree with you? [5]
- This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
- On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
- The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
- I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? [6]
- If it is written on the leaves of the Tree of Life that the white man rule us for ever, then it shall be so. [11]
- There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't. [5]
- All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
- The great hall, with its gallery, and its hangings, and the long table made from the trunk of a single tree, carries one back into the past centuries. [6]
- In Spring, truly, white and rose-red, blue and yellow chequer the green turf; but now gold and crimson are bright in the tree tops, and on the service trees. [10]
- Once in a while we caught sight of a yellow blaze in a tree, made by himself scarce a month gone, when he came southward alone to fetch Polly Ann. [9]
- That orange tree which shaded the uneven doorway of the kitchen she had found here. [9]
- The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
- But the tree which Jahn had planted grew, and its branches spread. [9]
- He didn't know what to make of my voice coming out of the tree at first. [5]
- Indeed some trees were worshipped by the Persians; and as the tree of life in the Hebrew and Egyptian, so we find sacred trees in their Paradise. [10]
- The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
- This done, I went out into the gallery, where Madame was already seated at her knitting, in the shade of the great tree that stood in the corner of the court and spread its branches over the eaves. [9]
- Their admiration for well-grown trees went so far, that Xerxes, finding on his way to Greece a singularly beautiful tree, hung ornaments of gold upon its branches. [10]
- Take the hymn we have just sung: "'On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you! [11]
- Limping a little way, I set my back against a tree, and drew my hanger. [11]
- They got half way to the tree I was in before the men noticed. [5]
- He knew the way they would go, so he fell behind a tree, and saw them start for the place where they could order a cab. [11]
- Well, there she was, lookin'--lookin' in front o' her, whin round the big tree in the middle of the gardin he come and stood forninst her. [11]
- A rude table was set there under a great tree, and around it three gentlemen were talking. [9]
- I wished I was out of that tree, but I dasn't come down. [5]
- The young guard was one fine tree among a grove of fine trees; but Marcus had something peculiar to himself, that distinguished him from the crowd, and which made him exceptionally attractive and lovable. [10]
- Climbing a tree was of no use, with so good a climber in the rear. [4]
- But the tree was equal to the occasion; it put out new fruits as fast as any were removed; baskets were filled by the score and by the hundred, but always the supply remained undiminished. [5]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- It was a very slim tree that hadn't a branch on it from the bottom plumb to the top, and there it bursted out like a feather-duster. [5]
- It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
- Wolff had scarcely vanished from the street, and Els from the window, when a man's slender figure appeared, as if it had risen from the earth, beside the spurge-laurel tree at the left of the house. [10]
- So I sat upon a favourite seat on the cliff, set against a solitary tree, fixed in the rocks. [11]
- Another man started up; the bridging bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge. [5]
- When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
- I've got it up the tree again. [5]
- I sat down under this tree a vagabond and a wanderer, and I get up a future land-holder, with the sweetest little wife in the world to keep house for me. [10]
- I had another uncle, on an entirely different Fourth of July, who was blown up that way, and really it trimmed him as it would a tree. [5]
- I had the Unabridged, and I was ciphering around in the back end, hoping I might tree her among the pictures. [5]
- Neither of these two adventurers into a wild world of feeling noticed that a man was sitting on a little knoll under a tree, not far away from their meeting-place, busy with pencil and paper. [11]
- I suppose every turn in it, every tree that has a knoll at the foot where two persons can sit, has witnessed a tragedy, or, what is worse, a comedy. [4]
- From about the trunks of the trees it has long departed: the tree is a living thing, and its growth repels it. [4]
- Like a magnificent tree, towering skyward on the frontier of two hostile countries, she stood between his past and his present life. [10]
- Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
- Every house, every tree, every wall seemed to radiate the heat it had absorbed during the day. [10]
- Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
- Chopping down a tree with a leaden axe is necessarily a slow process. [6]
- I remembered this tree well, as we measured the string which was to tell the size of its English rival. [6]
- Of course the tree was reduced that way, but didn't I explain it? [5]
- Look at one tree through a cut glass with many facets, and it be comes a forest. [10]
- It is a tree that can get along without water; still it is fond of it--ravenously so. [5]
- We saw a tree that bears grapes, and just as calmly and unostentatiously as a vine would do it. [5]
- Then a floating tree suddenly lunged up and struck him, so that he dropped upon a knee; but again he was up, and strained for the pier. [11]
- They decked the tree out in that ridiculous way, when the troops stationed in the city during the siege retired. [10]
- There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told. [5]
- Of course, the tree must have some size. [4]
- There is no tree in the garden I love so much, for it always reminds me of your father, who was so kind to me, and whom I can never forget! [10]
- There was one tree in the compound, and a monkey lived in it. [5]
- As a beautiful tree beside a burning house is seized by the neighboring flames, although immediately protected with cold water, Maria, in spite of her long-cherished resolve to receive him coolly, was overwhelmed by the warmth of her husband's feelings. [10]
- Had not the tree been crooked from the beginning--incapable of being straightened? [9]
- To climb a tree and shake it, to club it, to strip it of its fruit, and pass to the next, is the sport of a brief time. [4]
- Ned climbed a tree and arranged the halter, then came down and noosed his man. [5]
- As I walked towards the heights, the other morning, and passed an orchard, the gardener, who saw my ineffectual efforts, with a very long cane, to reach the boughs of a tree, came down to me with a basketful he had been picking. [4]
- There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways. [9]
- Halfway up, Big Tom showed us his favorite, the biggest tree he knew. [4]
- He had climbed to the topmost branch of the lithe and tough tree in order to take the full swing of this free creature in its sport with the western wind. [4]
- This cut me to the heart, inasmuch as this tree was dear to my uncle, having been planted by his grandfather; and there was never a spot where his ailing wife was so fain to be in the hot summer days as under its shadow. [10]
- I went up to the beautiful tree in admiration. [10]
- I was surprised to see it as a tree, standing by itself, and making the most delicious roof a pair of young lovers could imagine to sit under. [6]
- The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. [2]
- I was curious to know how the size of the trunk of this tree would compare with that of the trunks of some of our largest New England elms. [6]
- I advised her to keep away from the tree. [5]
- He gaily prepared to go to the Lake of the Mad Apple, where he was fated to eat of the tree of knowledge. [11]
- I was glad to get back my bald head again, and my pipe, and my old drowsy reflections in the shade of a rock or a tree. [5]
- I didn't stop to count, anyhow--I shinned down the tree and shot for home. [5]
- The jungle seemed to contain samples of every rare and curious tree and bush that we had ever seen or heard of. [5]
- Paris has nothing to compare with it for natural beauty,--Paris, which cannot let a tree grow, but must clip it down to suit French taste. [4]
- When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself--nearly. [5]
- They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything. [5]
- Rut one gets tired of the strings of questions sent him, to which he is expected to return an answer, plucked, ripe or unripe, from his private tree of knowledge. [6]
- He made a tiny toy squirrel out of clay, and it ran up a tree and sat on a limb overhead and barked down at us. [5]
- Up to this time it is a vexation, nothing more--and it can and must remain so; for we have it in our power to uproot the poisonous tree whence it emanates. [10]
- That trick of throwing a stone at a tree and attaching some mighty issue to hitting or missing, which you will find mentioned in one or more biographies, I well remember. [6]
- It is as though the leaves from the tree of my life had all dropped on the ground--nay, as though my own guilty hand had torn them from the stem. [10]
- I feel as though I lived upon a hill-top, under some greenwood tree, and--" "And 'sported with Amaryllis in the shade,'" she broke in with a little laugh of triumph, her eyes brighter than he had ever seen them. [11]
- How promising was this young tree of humanity that his rough fist had broken off! [10]
- For a time they will let him hew sandstone, and that will only improve his health, for he is as sturdy as a tree. [10]
- For some moments they walked in silence, then all at once under a magnolia tree she stopped. [11]
- The same tree they rested under when they first arrived, was there a short time ago, but the Viceroy of Egypt sent it to the Empress Eugenie lately. [5]
- Where one of these figures is found, the forty-day-fast story is likely to grow out of it, as the mistletoe springs from the oak or apple tree. [6]
- When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone. [5]
- The queen of them all is that glorious tree near one of the churches in Springfield. [6]
- They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
- He went for the wrong tree, which was, of course, the right one by mistake, and up he started. [5]
- Her bench beneath the venerable tree was empty, and with drooping head she approached the beloved resting-place, which she must leave forever on the morrow. [10]
- Then leaning against the trunk of the ancient tree, while he sank down on the bench, gazing alternately at the ground and into her face, she began: "Childhood already lies behind me, and youth will soon follow. [10]
- I leaped on the trunk and made my way along it, stepping over him, until I reached and hid myself in the great roots of the tree on the bank above. [9]
- She turned towards the tree, and there beside it stood Orlando. [11]
- It fell in the tree when it came down. [5]
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