Use trees in a sentence
Sentences starting with trees
- Trees won't grow worth chucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. [5]
- Trees grew out of the flower beds now, and underbrush choked the paths. [9]
- Trees have no nerves. [6]
Sentences ending with trees
- Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
- And yet you, you miscreant, accuse me of climbing trees! [5]
- When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan's house, where he was staying, at three o'clock in the morning, he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees. [9]
- The crowd turned with half-apprehensive laughter to the trees. [11]
- And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
- In summer its white wooden front was nearly hidden by the quivering leaves of two tall pear trees. [9]
- 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]
- It was midnight when we saw the lights of Temple Bow through the trees. [9]
- It was night when they had reached the school, the light of its many windows casting long streaks on the snow under the trees. [9]
- From here I watched the other nuts grow to be trees. [10]
Short sentences using trees
- Turnips don't grow on trees! [5]
- What splendid trees it has! [4]
- The trees are gigantic. [4]
- The trees were dripping. [2]
- And tall trees. [12]
Sentences containing trees two or more times
- 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]
- Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: "Rustic trees, your dark branches shed gloom and melancholy upon me. [2]
- He could see the trees, the kameel-thorn, the blue-gums, the orange and peach trees surrounding it, a clump or cloud of green in the veld. [11]
- The buds were swelling on the tall trees, shrubs without end were covered with blossoms--white, blue, yellow, and red--while, among the smooth, shining leaves of the orange and lemon trees, gleamed the swelling fruit. [10]
- She presently stretched out a hand almost caressingly to the thick trees and the grass, and said aloud: "Oh, the beautiful trees and the long grass! [11]
- While passing a grove of birches, he asked the lad if he knew why the trunks of these trees were white, and then explained the cause, as follows: "When Orpheus played so exquisitely on his lute, all the trees rushed forward to dance. [10]
- A moment later Cushnan Di was leading them through a copse of pawpaw trees to a secluded garden by the Aqueduct, overgrown with vines and ancient rose trees, and cherry shrubs. [11]
More example sentences with the word trees in them
- How I wish you could see us felling trees to make bullet-moulds, and forging slugs for canister, and making cartridges at night with our bayonets as candlesticks. [9]
- It was surrounded, yet not hemmed in, by trees of a considerable age. [9]
- This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
- To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
- The great cliffs with their clinging, gnarled trees, the vast mountains clothed in the motley colors of the autumn, the sweet and smoky smell of the Indian summer,--all were dear to me. [9]
- Cyrus pointed out with pride and pleasure the trees he had planted with his own hand. [6]
- Again, I sat with Nick under the trees on the lawn at Temple Bow, and the world was dark with the coming storm. [9]
- Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
- They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
- Through the open windows I looked upon a lawn, green with close-shaven turf, set with ancient trees, and variegated with parterres of summer plants in bloom. [4]
- There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
- In the sharp wind the trees shook themselves angrily free of leaves. [11]
- You poor souls will have a bad time now, for the sun of my life has lost its light and the trees by the way-side have lost their verdure. [10]
- They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
- The country was wild and rocky about here, but there were plenty of trees, plenty of moss, and grass. [5]
- Where the valleys widened we came to silent, decorous little towns and villages where yellow-lit windows gleaming through the trees suggested refuge and peace, while we were wanderers in the night. [9]
- Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite--but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? [5]
- There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. [4]
- The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
- A red and white awning, stretching up the length of the walk which once had run beside the tall pear trees, gave it an unrecognizable, gala air. [9]
- Beside the springs which there gushed from the soil of the desert grew green palm trees and thorny acacias. [10]
- The trees from which the fine fruit I have spoken of, came, had been planted and replanted sixteen times, and to this treatment the proprietor of the orchard attributed his-success. [5]
- When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
- It was so when we climbed the cherry trees at Bellegarde. [9]
- Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
- At length there were signs that we were drifting out of the wilderness, and one morning we came in sight of a rich plantation with its dark orange trees and fields of indigo, with its wide-galleried manor-house in a grove. [9]
- At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
- Under the trees were hundreds of tables surrounded by hovering ministering angels in white, and if you were German, they brought you beer; if American, ice-cream. [9]
- First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
- At Andujar we were delighted with the neatness and cleanliness of the houses, the patios planted with orange and citron trees, and refreshed by fountains. [4]
- Behind the house were clumps of lilacs with a century's growth upon them, and looking more like trees than like shrubs. [6]
- If my plan were carried out, and another series of a dozen English trees photographed on the same scale the comparison would be charming. [6]
- Some of them were bodied and barked like the sycamore; some were of fantastic aspect, and reminded one of the quaint apple trees in Japanese pictures. [5]
- One day he went searching for Kitty at her favourite retreat, a little knoll behind and to the left of the house, where a half-dozen trees made a pleasant resting-place at a fine look-out point. [11]
- She rose and went quietly out into the biting winter night, and stood staring through the trees at the friendly reddened windows of the little cottage across the way with a yearning that passed her understanding. [9]
- Croesus and Phanes went into the green and pleasant garden lying on the eastern side of the royal palace, which abounded in groves of trees, shrubberies, fountains and flower-beds. [10]
- The way she went gave no shelter save the trees and caves which had been used to cache buffalo meat and hides in old days. [11]
- 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]
- How many trees we climbed, what steep cliffs we scaled, through what crevices we squeezed to add a rare egg to our collection; nay, we even risked our limbs and necks! [10]
- They forget the way beneath the trees, they lose their skill in horses. [11]
- Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
- There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers. [4]
- It is badly washed, it is stony, muddy, and great trees have fallen across it which wholly block the way for horses. [4]
- Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
- How delightful it was to saunter down the winding road into a region of peace and calm; to see from the safe highway the great giants in all their majesty; to come to vegetation, to the company of familiar trees, and the haunts of men! [4]
- What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees! [4]
- At last there was the sound of footsteps, and a moment later Gabriel Druse came through the trees towards her. [11]
- To the right was the magnificent residence--a palace indeed--belonging to Susannah; to the left was an extensive grove, where tall palms, sycamores with spreading foliage, and dense thickets of blue-green tamarisk trees cast their shade. [10]
- What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
- Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
- Mr. George Percy was ravished at the sight of the fair meadows and goodly tall trees. [4]
- Behind the houses was often a kind of pink-and-cream paradise of flowering fruit trees, so dear to the French settlers. [9]
- Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
- The daintiest lace was hung over the frosted trees. [10]
- A keen wind was blowing, and rushed against them fiercely: bleaching the hard ground, shaking the white frost from the trees and hedges, and whirling it away like dust. [12]
- A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost. [2]
- After supper there was an illumination of the cascade, and the ancient gnarled arbor-vita: trees that lean over it-perhaps the largest known specimens of this species-of the gorge and the Bridge. [4]
- Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
- In the farther wall of this store-court was a very high doorway, that led into a large garden with rows of well-tended trees and trellised vines, clumps of shrubs, flowers, and beds of vegetables. [10]
- He met her walking among the trees, very near the place where they had had their first long talk, months before, when Jethro Fawe was a prisoner in the Hut in the Woods. [11]
- Father and daughter walked up and down, hand in hand, under the great trees, and then they went to the bank. [9]
- Toward midnight the voices began to subside, a cock crowed, the full moon began to show from behind the lime trees, a fresh white dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over the village and the house. [2]
- And he had visions of a quiet dinner with Richter under the trees at the beer-garden, where he could talk about Abraham Lincoln. [9]
- Over all the village was a red glare, lighting up the sky, burnishing the trees. [11]
- It was a very sickly green, from which wan and dusty fig trees rose. [11]
- It was a very quiet place, as such a place should be, save for the cawing of the rooks who had built their nests among the branches of some tall old trees, and were calling to one another, high up in the air. [12]
- Those who write verses have no special claim to be lovers of trees, but so far as one is of the poetical temperament he is likely to be a tree-lover. [6]
- It sometimes brought us into conflict with the owners of the trees, and it was only natural that "Froebel's youngsters" often excited the peasants' ire. [10]
- I looked again upon the familiar rows of trees which shaded the gravelled promenades where Nick had first seen Antoinette. [9]
- My pyrhanism vanished upon his statement that in the very region referred to he had seen petrified trees of the length of two hundred feet. [5]
- Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
- It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
- Prince Andrew rode up to the hothouse; some of the glass panes were broken, and of the trees in tubs some were overturned and others dried up. [2]
- It was painted up on boards, and these were nailed to trees in the forest. [5]
- It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
- The sun came up in a glory of carmine, and the trees were brilliant in their varied shades of green. [5]
- With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. [2]
- Presently Tim moved uneasily, then got up and walked about; and at last, with a strange, awed look, when an hour was past, he stole back into the shadow of the trees, while still the wounded soul poured out its misery and repentance. [11]
- What a strange underground life is that which is led by the organisms we call trees! [6]
- Meanwhile, at work under the windswept trees of the highway, were strange, dark men from the uttermost parts of the earth, physiognomies as old as the tombs of Pharaoh. [9]
- It was pleasant under the trees, in the gold-flecked shade, with the whistle of quail and twittering of birds everywhere. [13]
- You see those under the trees yonder? [4]
- They walked out under the trees to the brook-side and stood listening to the tinkling of the cowbells in the wood lot beyond. [9]
- We had dinner under the green trees in a garden belonging to the hotel and overlooking the Neckar; then, after a smoke, we went to bed. [5]
- Above it, and under the big trees, shone a thousand glittering lights: there was a crowd at the gate, and instead of saying, "Open, Sesame," Peter slipped two bright fifty-cent pieces to the red-faced German ticketman, and in they went. [9]
- The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
- The plantation contains two thousand six hundred acres; six hundred and fifty are in cane; and there is a fruitful orange grove of five thousand trees. [5]
- There were, besides, two maples and two apricot trees, relics of the farm, and of blessed memory. [9]
- Between the trees twinkled lights of cottage candles, and far down flared bright windows of the village stores. [13]
- From twenty-two to twenty-three feet is the ordinary maximum of the very largest trees. [6]
- At first he turned towards the bridge, as though to cross over to Lebanon, but the last word Ingolby had uttered rang in his ears, and he carried him away into the trees towards his own house, the faithful terrier following. [11]
- At length we turned into the avenue through the forest, lined by wild orange trees, came in sight of the low, belvedered plantation house, and drew rein at the foot of the steps. [9]
- The speakers now turned down the path, sparsely shaded from the midday sun by a few trees, which led to the tank in the centre of the garden, and they went further and further from her. [10]
- From about the trunks of the trees it has long departed: the tree is a living thing, and its growth repels it. [4]
- There was the truck patch, with its yellow squashes and melons, and cabbages and beans, where Polly Ann and I worked through the hot mornings; and the corn patch, with the great stumps of the primeval trees standing in it. [9]
- Are there not trout in the streams, gum exuding from the spruce, sugar in the maples, honey in the hollow trees, fur on the sables, warmth in hickory logs? [4]
- With a solemn triumphal march there mingled a song, the drip from the trees, and the hissing of the saber, "Ozheg-zheg-zheg..." and again the horses jostled one another and neighed, not disturbing the choir but joining in it. [2]
- They climbed the trees, then flashed splendidly in and out of the vast and increasing volume of tumbling smoke, and I had to clap my hands and laugh and dance in my rapture, it was so new and strange and so wonderful and so beautiful! [5]
- There warn't no trees, nor hills, nor rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea. [5]
- The faint spectral trees, dimly glimpsed through the shredding fog, were very pretty things to see. [5]
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