EVERGREEN in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for EVERGREEN, such as:

1. An evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves all year round.
2. When we were in the Cutters' yard, sheltered by the evergreens, I told her she must kiss me good night.
3. The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVERGREEN
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evergreen
 a.  plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year
Classic Sentence:
1  "On the contrary, I like it very much, dear," looking from the dusty rosary to the well-worn little book, and the lovely picture with its garland of evergreen.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
2  The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
3  There seemed to have been grass paths here and there, and in one or two corners there were alcoves of evergreen with stone seats or tall moss-covered flower urns in them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
5  There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is standing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  They dwelt in a fussy, scroll-work house, painted white and buried in thick evergreens, with a fussy white fence and barn.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
8  When we were in the Cutters' yard, sheltered by the evergreens, I told her she must kiss me good night.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
9  My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings, endlessly varied in material and style, the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same blossom-laden trees and tree-ferns.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence:
1  More than two-thirds of Canada's forest land consists of conifer forests – cone-bearing and usually evergreen trees that are used for softwood.
2  An evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves all year round.