ELM in a Sentence
Learn ELM 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.
27 example sentences for ELM, such as:
1. The disease blighted oaks and elms.
2. That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
3. A pigeon was cooing up in one of the elms.
4. We replanted the old elm in our back garden.
5. The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
2. That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
3. A pigeon was cooing up in one of the elms.
4. We replanted the old elm in our back garden.
5. The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ELM
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elm
n. hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
n. any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running into the big elm at the bottom.
2 That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
3 Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
4 She put her lips close against his ear to say: "Right into the big elm."
5 There was a last instant when the air shot past him like millions of fiery wires; and then the elm.
6 Anna Hansen shook the reins and they drove on, while I zigzagged back to my inlet and clambered up behind an overhanging elm.
7 Uncas silently extended toward him the desired gourd, which the spleen of Hawkeye had hitherto prevented him from observing on a branch of an elm.
8 Against the wall were ranged, in regular array, a long row of elm boards cut in the same shape: looking in the dim light, like high-shouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches pockets.
9 There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
10 And the shadow of the elm must mean the farther end of the shadow, otherwise the trunk would have been chosen as the guide.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
11 Then I took two lengths of a fishing-rod, which came to just six feet, and I went back with my client to where the elm had been.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
12 He presently halted under a great elm, blew an answering blast, and then began to tiptoe and look warily out, this way and that.
13 The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees.
14 They arrived hot and panting, and threw themselves down in the shade of a neighboring elm to rest and have a smoke.
15 In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain.
Example Sentence:
1 In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
2 We replanted the old elm in our back garden.
3 The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
4 A pigeon was cooing up in one of the elms.
5 The disease blighted oaks and elms.