VEGETATION in a Sentence

Learn VEGETATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

114 example sentences for VEGETATION, such as:

1. The wagon was full of vegetables.
2. Cut the vegetables into thin strips.
3. The vegetables are grown under glass.
4. Our garden affords us fresh vegetables.
5. Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

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 Meanings and Examples of VEGETATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vegetation
 n.  plants of an area or a region; plant life
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Let us tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is vegetation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
2  It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  A large tree, covered with those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces distant from the pile of stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
4  Contrary to what happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls upon it kills whatever it touches.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
5  But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock in the virgin forest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
6  The wanton and vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees to trembling.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
7  This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, being very rare in vegetation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
8  She had not known before how much the beginnings and progress of vegetation had delighted her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
10  Civilization was its enemy; and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
11  It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
12  Amid the soft juicy vegetation of the hollow in which they sat, the motionless and the uninhabited solitude, intruded the chink of guineas, the rattle of dice, the exclamations of the reckless players.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
13  Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leave of the Lapland woman.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  Raw vegetables contain more potassium than cooked ones.
17  Cut the vegetables into thin strips.
18  Put the lamb in the centre of the dish, with the vegetables and herbs around the edge.
19  Our garden affords us fresh vegetables.
20  These vegetables are fresh, I picked them this morning.
21  Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
22  The wagon was full of vegetables.
23  The vegetables are grown under glass.
24  The global economy means that all types of fruit and vegetables are available throughout the year.
25  The children don't eat enough green vegetables.
26  You may hang about here when I send down these vegetables.
27  In the village market, the stalls are piled high with local vegetables.
28  The meal itself was not so good — everything was boringly brown including the vegetables.
29  All main courses come with salad or vegetables.
30  The market was full of brightly coloured vegetables set out on stalls.