CYPRESS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CYPRESS, such as:
1. The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
2. This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.
3. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
4. Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
2. This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.
3. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
4. Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
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Meanings and Examples of CYPRESS
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cypress
n. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
n. any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
Classic Sentence:
1 Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
2 Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
3 Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.
4 First they build up a vast pyre of resinous billets and sawn oak, whose sides they entwine with dark leaves and plant funereal cypresses in front, and adorn it above with his shining armour.
Example Sentence:
1 Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
2 The character of the pine and cypress is shown in frigid winter ; the sincerity of one's friend is shown in adverse circumstances.
3 The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
4 This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.