GREENHOUSE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for GREENHOUSE, such as:

1. Behind the green house was a greenhouse.
2. We know that greenhouse gases can affect the climate.
3. The specific impact of the greenhouse effect is unknowable.
4. She had come out on to the path that led past the greenhouse.
5. Most vegetables we buy in winter are nurtured in the greenhouse.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREENHOUSE
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greenhouse
 n.  house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather
Classic Sentence:
1  He forgot how she would have looked against vine leaf in a greenhouse.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  She threw away the shred of Old Man's Beard that she had picked in passing and kicked open the greenhouse door.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
3  At first they resented--serving as statues in a greenhouse.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  They had left the greenhouse door open, and now music came through it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
5  And they sat on in the greenhouse, on the plank with the vine over them, listening to Miss La Trobe or whoever it was, practising her scales.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
6  She had come out on to the path that led past the greenhouse.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
7  Ben Weatherstaff brought the rose in its pot from the greenhouse.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where flowers and trees grew strangely into one another.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
9  The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  But, by good fortune the greenhouse was not far off, and these words brought us to it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
11  He had thought of Jo in reaching after the thorny red rose, for vivid flowers became her, and she had often worn ones like that from the greenhouse at home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence:
1  Prescott's speech comes as ministers from around the world struggle to overcome complex arguments about how the Kyoto agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions should work.
2  What we've seen recently is that we really had foot on the gas pedal of greenhouse gas emissions.
3  The Clean Cars Act is the first law in America to force car manufacturers to find ways of reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses.
4  Most vegetables we buy in winter are nurtured in the greenhouse.
5  Our ancestors started adding the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide principally by cutting down trees for farming; whereas methane production started with wet farming of rice.
6  We know that greenhouse gases can affect the climate.
7  We are all beginning to experience global warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
8  Behind the green house was a greenhouse.
9  The specific impact of the greenhouse effect is unknowable.
10  It is important to maintain a constant temperature inside the greenhouse.