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Example sentences for "foxtail"

Lexicographically close words:
foxhound; foxhounds; foxhunter; foxlike; foxskin; foxy; foy; foyer; fra; fracas
  1. The dark green of its foliage makes the belts of foxtail pines conspicuous where they grow above the timber line of nearly all other trees.

  2. It is known also as foxtail pine and hickory pine.

  3. Names descriptive of the leaves are longschat pine, longshucks pine, shortleaf pine, foxtail pine, and longstraw pine.

  4. Those who travel and camp among the highest mountains of California are often indebted to foxtail pine for their fuel.

  5. Foxtail Cactus; Desert Pincushion (Coryphantha deserti) How to identify and how it grows The Foxtail Cactus grows as a single stem or in clumps.

  6. Fred did the same, and when they came into plain view of the tiny dock at the end of Foxtail Island their boat was two full lengths ahead of the other.

  7. You might race to the near end of Foxtail Island," suggested Ruth, and pointed to an island some distance down the lake.

  8. No, I just chew," Asher replied, as he bent the foxtail thoughtfully in his fingers and looked out toward the wheat fields already rippling like waves under the morning breeze.

  9. Asher was chewing the tender joint of a spear of foxtail grass, and Champers had lighted a heavy cigar.

  10. Loosening his snow-shoes, he flung them on the step and came in, a foxtail dangling from his fur cap.

  11. I've an idea," said the teacher, as he cut the foxtail from his cap.

  12. The two species known as Foxtail Pines are alike in their short entire falcate leaves, persisting for many years and forming long dense foliage-masses.

  13. The two Foxtail Pines are so similar in most characters that they have been considered, with good reason, to be specifically identical; yet the seed-wing of P.

  14. Some fields look as though the foxtail had crowded the alfalfa out, but I hold that the alfalfa died from some other cause and the foxtail merely took its place.

  15. How about putting first cutting of alfalfa and foxtail into the silo?

  16. Will foxtail choke out and exterminate alfalfa?

  17. Foxtail will not choke out alfalfa, providing, soil and moisture conditions are right for the latter, and a good stand of plant has been secured.

  18. If anything is wrong with the alfalfa, the foxtail will be on the alert to take advantage of it.

  19. The meadow foxtail and sweet-scented vernal would be left out entirely, and some six or eight pounds added to the Timothy and red clover.

  20. On the Hot Creek, White Pine, and Golden Gate ranges we find a still hardier and more picturesque species, called the foxtail pine, from its long dense leaf-tassels.

  21. Just above the aspens we entered a fine, close growth of foxtail pine, the tallest and most evenly planted I had yet seen.

  22. Maiden Foxtail was dressed out in the finest manner with red rings and a gold girdle, but the young man was ill at ease, and could not forget what had happened to his sister.

  23. Not a bit of foxtail in his hay or beddin'.

  24. I thought it might be a fly or a bit of foxtail in his feed.

  25. Fastening by fox wedges is called foxtail wedging.

  26. Course grass; it appears to be the Same which is Called the Corn grass in the Southern States, and the Foxtail in Virginia.

  27. Corn grass in the Southern states, and the foxtail in Virginia.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foxtail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.