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Example sentences for "foliage"

Lexicographically close words:
fole; foles; folgen; folia; foliaceous; foliaged; foliar; foliate; foliated; foliation
  1. And the foliage is unusually heavy, almost in clusters, and it drops cleanly and freely from the husks, and I think it is a very nice filbert.

  2. It isn't worth mentioning as a nut producer, but it does have very attractive foliage and seems to be entirely healthy, produces perhaps three to five nuts a year on a bush as high as your head.

  3. The foliage is very distinct from anything I know.

  4. There was some foliage burn in two of the record trees in the Dieldrin plot at Eldred, both being the variety Rockville.

  5. The most promising results were obtained by injecting the chemicals into the soil where they are taken up by the roots and by applying chemicals directly to the foliage in a spray.

  6. The feeding of the spider mites on the foliage of infested trees causes it first to have a bronzed or scorched appearance, and later to dry up and fall.

  7. After a month or so in the ground the adult emerges, feeds on the foliage for a while, and then enters hibernation.

  8. These symptoms may be seen from June to September or until normal autumn colors of the foliage develop.

  9. The foliage is very beautiful, and it remains healthy.

  10. She saw her friend, on whom all her hopes were built, go crashing through the foliage immediately below the precipice edge, and disappear.

  11. Her body hidden by a bush, she parted the screening foliage with her hands and looked out as through a little window.

  12. In each of four sectors of the palisading circle of foliage and shadows which surrounded the opening among the trees, there waited a man, silent and watchful, a carbine ready in his two hands.

  13. To these she adds all venom that has a name, the foliage of herbs over which she has sung her charms, and on which she had voided her rheum as they grew.

  14. When you arrived however, you were presented with a wood of great circumference, the foliage of which was so thick that the beams of the sun could not pierce it.

  15. The day was cloudless, a breeze at times sighed through the fragrant foliage of the grove wherein the little church had been built.

  16. The full moon lit up the grove of tropical foliage and richly-flowering plants, the glades carpeted with velvet lawn, the wide sea-plain traversed by shimmering pathways of silver.

  17. The few and slight boughs, the feathery layers of foliage rounding in age to sloping crowns, who knows them but the wind and the snows that neither stir nor are stayed by them?

  18. This is a late summer flowering shrub that in mid-winter loses a little of its glossy green, and above its yellowing foliage bears berries in great scarlet clusters.

  19. In Summer the fine-leafed foliage catches the sun like spray, diffusing vaporous blueness; but the majesty of their gigantic trunks is incommunicable.

  20. High up the tops are caught in a froth of pale-green foliage through which the sunlight filters blue.

  21. The river is made all the more lovely by its fringe of trees and the wide-spreading gardens where it flows, and the greenness of the foliage is rendered all the more apparent when we contrast it with the barren hills around.

  22. If any of us have pictured a lake, surrounded with luxuriant fields and shady groves, its waves kissing the feet of waving palms, and reflecting the rich foliage of the tropics, we are doomed to disappointment.

  23. The eastern horizon displays a belt of light that reveals the sharp outlines of the mountain of the Land of Moab, and the ruddy tinge increases as the Pilgrims descend into the fringe of foliage that masks the banks of the river.

  24. The impenetrable wall of foliage shut out the valley from him even more completely than when he was on the ridge.

  25. A long gash of earth laid bare and of foliage ripped and strewn aside stretched up the incline to mark the track of the fallen boulder.

  26. As the days went on and spring began to appear in the light, fleeting clouds in the blue sky and in the greening foliage in the city squares, Philip became more and more restless.

  27. The foliage of Central Park, already heavy, still preserved the freshness of its new birth, and invited the stroller on the Avenue to its protecting shade.

  28. It was a fine spring morning, and the bunch of horsemen made a pretty sight as the sun came up, moving through the greenness--the foliage is well out down there in May.

  29. Motionless and unmoved she appeared, amongst the flowery shrubs and verdant foliage of the garden, like some statue of chaste and classical beauty, placed to embellish and diversify the sylvan spot.

  30. Foliage of all kinds not as good as usual.

  31. They drew back among the dense foliage some yards away and waited in tense silence.

  32. With a snarl Conan plunged through the intervening foliage and into the trail.

  33. The old priest stood looking down into the garden, where, amid the feathery foliage of the pepper trees and the bamboos, he could perceive the shadow of a black dress.

  34. A sharp ascent led them up from Gaucin to regions where foliage grew scarcer at every step, and cultivation was unknown.

  35. How beautiful was the stern old castle, softened by the moonlight, the illumined lake, the richly-silvered foliage of the woods, and the white brilliant cataract!

  36. Deer and cattle are fond of the foliage and young shoots if they can get at them.

  37. The foliage of the Birch in autumn turns to a yellow hue.

  38. Almost everybody who has an elementary acquaintance with trees knows a Poplar at sight, the foliage being so very distinct from that of other trees.

  39. Where accessible to cattle or deer, the foliage of the suckers is eagerly browsed by them.

  40. Though the stout cylindrical bole is short, its erect trunk towers to a height of eighty or a hundred feet, supporting the massive pyramid, beautiful on account of its fine foliage and handsome flowers alike.

  41. But the lower slopes are pleasant too, with the venerable yews and thorns and hornbeams dotted over the hill-side, and the heights above clad with a wealth of mingled foliage which is reflected in the bright waters of the still, clear lake.

  42. He came into places he had never seen before, where the rocks became steeper, the foliage disappeared, and the naked walls called out to him as with angry voices, while a lonesome moaning wind drove him on.

  43. The military trees had grown, and through the gaps in the foliage as I drew nearer I made out the detail of the most imposing structure I had ever seen.

  44. I followed her raised hand over the land, over the green of the fields and the white of blossoming orchards, to the great barn, gleaming cheerfully in the noonday sun, and to the dark roof nestling in the foliage of giant oaks.

  45. In the deep clefts of the Loma Prieta lay the blackish shade of the chemasal, and only one degree less sombre appeared the foliage of the live-oak against the tender green of the fresh grass.

  46. Whatever there was unlovely about the older, adobe built portion of the place was toned down by the foliage of waving trees, and warmed into tropical beauty by the few isolated palms, which some blessed hand set out long years ago.

  47. Tree robust, spreading, very productive; Foliage large, dark, on shoots that are stout and have a rich brown bark.

  48. These last are often seen upon the leaves of the Elm, and upon some Poplars, and other trees; but I have not found any upon the foliage of our cultivated fruits, unless it be those on the grape.

  49. Clover, on the contrary, makes a denser shade, and seeking its supplies more deeply, is less injurious, while its abundant broad foliage attracts ample supplies of dew to irrigate the soil.

  50. Foliage large and long, with a peculiar curl or folding upwards, so as to show the underside of the leaves.

  51. When more numerous, the foliage may be syringed with common soapsuds, or with the whale oil soap, two pounds to fifteen gallons of water.

  52. Their appetites are not very discriminating, however, and when they are abundant they may consume the foliage of our trees.

  53. This turns brown, becomes desiccated, and thus the circulation is arrested, and the foliage as well as the bark is affected.

  54. The pear tree slug, (Selandria cerasi), destroys the foliage of many young trees in the nursery; caterpillars also do their share of mischief.

  55. Turning off towards the river, we reached the bank in about a mile, and were delighted to find an old tree, with thick foliage and spreading branches, where we encamped.

  56. The foliage of the oak is getting darker; and every thing, except that the weather is a little cool, shows that spring is rapidly advancing; and to- day we had quite a summer rain.

  57. The larches cluster together in masses on the side of the mountains, and their yellow foliage contrasts handsomely with the green of the balsam and other pines.

  58. The neighboring mountain is thickly studded with pines, intermingled with the brighter foliage of aspens, and occasional spots like lawns between the patches of snow among the pines, and here and there on the heights.

  59. Here, where the lake glittered in the open sunlight, its banks of yellow sand and the light foliage of aspen groves contrasted well with the gloomy pines.

  60. A profusion of blossoms on a white flowering vine, (clematis lasianthi) which was abundant along the river, contrasted handsomely with the green foliage of the trees.

  61. The cottonwood varied its foliage with white tufts, and the feathery seeds were flying plentifully through the air.

  62. The sun did not penetrate here through the massed foliage of the locked boughs overhead.

  63. She saw the boughs bend, their massed foliage shake and quiver as if a wind swept through it.

  64. Coarse grass and stunted bush took the place of the massed foliage of the trees.

  65. A roof of gray and green was over him, the forest's foliage woven into a tent.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foliage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    drapery; foliation; umbrage