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Example sentences for "lush"

Lexicographically close words:
lurks; luscinia; luscious; lusciousness; luse; lusit; lust; luste; lusted; luster
  1. From this fishing they turn to lush water-grass, or to digging frogs and turtles out of the mud; and the turtle's shell is cracked by dropping a stone upon it.

  2. On the other hand, beneath the terrace wall, the Avon slowly and silently glides along by bridge and town, by water-meadows, bright with celandine in spring and thick with lush grass in June.

  3. Beyond smoky Buckfastleigh and its spire, the Dart flows among lush meadows and around wooded hills, past Dean Prior, with its memories of Herrick, and Staverton, where it is crossed by a strongly buttressed bridge.

  4. But for some miles a great tower has been rising more and more distinctly above the lush water-meadows, as did that of Worcester on the higher reaches of the Severn.

  5. Round it ring the hills, not bald and craggy, nor morass-bound, but gentle and lush and green, for the valley lies just out of the grip of the mountainous districts of Wales.

  6. The sun was hot, the season merry June, and never (I thought) had there been such wealth and riot of buttercups throughout the lush grass.

  7. A pavilion, gold-topped, wreathed with lush jessamine, beckoned with a special significance over close-set shrubs.

  8. The supply was getting less as the animals advanced in calf, and the supernumerary milkers of the lush green season had been dismissed.

  9. Where the watered hollows grew lush were thickets full of birds, outposts of the aggressively and cheerfully worldly in this pine-land of spiritual detachment.

  10. After an apparently interminable interval we crossed an irrigating ditch, where the horses were glad to water, and so came to one of those green flowering lush California villages so startlingly in contrast to their surroundings.

  11. Every sort of green thing grew very lush all about us, but our own little space was held dry and clear for us by the needles of two enormous red cedars some four feet in diameter.

  12. Around it the lush fields of clover were brilliant and cool in the expanse of brown sultriness.

  13. The grass grew lush and rich on the rotten lava soil.

  14. The blue horizons, the great white clouds sailing, the purple heathland, the lush valleys with their glimmerings of water!

  15. There are lush valleys where the grass grows tall, and flowers dream in the sunlight.

  16. May was in, green May, with lush grass and opening leaves.

  17. By Phoebus' fane Withered the bays that erst were lush and green.

  18. All about Lush dewy watermeads there were, bestarred With flowers innumerable, grassy groves, And springs with clear transparent water bright.

  19. It much resembles the small tributary streams, with a lush undergrowth of weeds down to the water's edge, and arched with monster sycamores, elms, maples and persimmons.

  20. At times the march measured a full day's length amid the columned aisles of the forest temple through lush green glades dank and steaming in the August heat, or over hillsides slippery with the fallen leaves of the pine-trees.

  21. Here we could look down into a smaller glade or bottom meadow on the stream where the horses of the band were cropping the lush grass.

  22. The Wye at this point spreads out its waters, turning weedy wheels, and wandering through lush meadow-lands, finely timbered.

  23. The walk now is through lush meadows, and the progress of the stream, so swift and tumultuous in its upper reaches, is in comparison almost sluggish.

  24. And through it, over all, was the fine scent of the winter heliotrope that clung to the crannies of the rocks or grew lush by the little stream, which, falling in tinkling cascades, slid along the sand into the sea.

  25. White hot fire shot across the backs of his eyeballs, and the mass of lush green jungle all about began to swim around and become as so much churned up pea soup.

  26. There was nothing but lush green jungle and cliff and crag-studded hills and mountains.

  27. Horrible, lingering, painful death that comes to a man lost and unarmed in the steaming lush jungle of northern Burma.

  28. As Dave spoke he kept his eyes fixed on the stretch of lush green ground almost directly below.

  29. In the warm past hippopotami had wallowed through a lush sub-tropical vegetation, and a tremendous tiger with fangs like sabres, the sabre-toothed tiger, had hunted its prey where now the journalists of Fleet Street go to and fro.

  30. I sit above it now, upon the steep bank, knee-deep in buttercups, and amid grass so lush and green that it seems to ripple and flow instead of waving.

  31. And, as the year Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll smoothly steer My little boat, for many quiet hours, With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.

  32. Overhead, 940 Hung a lush scene of drooping weeds, and spread Thick, as to curtain up some wood-nymph's home.

  33. The lush wandering hedgerows again climb the steeps; the little white houses blink through orchards upon high-pitched terraces.

  34. We had paid off all that we had borrowed to make the down payment on the place, and in the lush winter months we had saved enough to carry us through till the next winter if we didn't take in another cent until then.

  35. And the lush greenness of the lawns, and the brilliance of the flowers, made the spot seem like an oasis.

  36. The cows are munching away with great gusto, their noses plunged into the lush grass, their tails incessantly busy flicking off the flies.

  37. Anyhow, I love to see these buffaloes amongst the lush grass.

  38. The animals stirred in their sleep, sighed deeply, dreamed of lush green pastures.

  39. The thought suddenly came to her, as she slumped down beside the window unnoticing of the lush summer just beyond the screen, that there would never be any children for her.

  40. Lush grass overran the pools and clogged the feeble trickle of the creek.

  41. Endicott glanced toward the two horses that stood, belly-deep, in the lush vegetation.


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