FOLIAGE in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for FOLIAGE, such as:

1. Overhead the foliage moved softly.
2. Over some foliage they could see the roof of a house.
3. The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.
4. There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
5. Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOLIAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
foliage
 n.  masses of leaves; a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Atlanta these days was like a giant plant which had been cut to the ground but now was springing up again with sturdier shoots, thicker foliage, more numerous branches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  Her pale draperies, and the background of foliage against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like curves that swept upward from her poised foot to her lifted arm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
5  Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6  The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
8  As I passed the Methodist Church, I saw three white figures ahead of me, pacing up and down under the arching maple trees, where the moonlight filtered through the lush June foliage.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
9  It was noon now, and so hot that the dogwoods and scrub-oaks began to turn up the silvery underside of their leaves, and all the foliage looked soft and wilted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
10  All the mystery and witchery of the night seemed to have gathered there amid the perfumes and the dusky and tortuous outlines of flowers and foliage.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
11  The quick eyes of the Mohicans caught the dark line of his lower limbs incautiously exposed through the thin foliage, a few inches from the trunk of the tree.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
12  The instant, however, he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes, his dusky form was to be seen gliding, like that of a serpent, toward the desired treasure.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  Overhead the foliage moved softly.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  Over some foliage they could see the roof of a house.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  The climbing fire lit up their faces and threw its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree-trunks of their forest temple, and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
2  The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.
3  In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
4  Every autumn before the leaves fell he promised himself he would drive through New England to admire the colorful fall foliage.