AUTUMNAL in a Sentence

Learn AUTUMNAL 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.
152 example sentences for AUTUMNAL, such as:
1. The leaves turn brown in autumn.
2. The leaves turn crimson in autumn.
3. It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day.
4. Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
5. The leaves begin to fall when autumn comes.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AUTUMNAL
autumnal
 a.  of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn
 a.  characteristic of late maturity verging on decline
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  She stood silent, gazing away from him down the autumnal stretch of the deserted lane.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  As the vast girdle of crimson darkened, the fulfilled land became autumnal in deep reds and browns.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  It was about six o'clock in the evening; an opal-colored light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, descended on the blue ocean.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
4  Sitting at the window, Beth's work often dropped into her lap, and she leaned her head upon her hand, in a dejected attitude, while her eyes rested on the dull, autumnal landscape.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
5  Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
6  The veiled autumnal evenings led him from street to street as they had led him years before along the quiet avenues of Blackrock.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
8  He could feel his own daughters snickering behind his back as they remembered in what condition he had come home from the Wilkeses' last barbecue the autumn before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  There was the far-off yelping of possum dogs in the dark swamp under cool autumn moons and the smell of eggnog bowls, wreathed with holly at Christmas time and smiles on black and white faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  Atlanta was only twenty miles away but the train crawled interminably through the wet early autumn afternoon, stopping at every bypath for passengers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
14  She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one autumnal face.
2  American people use "fall" to mean autumn.
3  The painting glowed with beautiful autumn tints.
4  We like to travel in the autumn when there are fewer tourists.
5  Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
6  The leaves turn brown in autumn.
7  The leaves turn crimson in autumn.
8  The leaves begin to fall when autumn comes.
9  As autumn draws near, leaves begin to fall from the trees.
10  We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.
11  The book is scheduled for publication in the autumn.
12  The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this autumn cannot be ruled out.
13  At the first cold of autumn, many insects go into hibernation.
14  You are invited to view our autumn collection.
15  The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn.