SHRUB in a Sentence
Learn SHRUB 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.
30 example sentences for SHRUB, such as:
1. These shrubs produce bright red berries.
2. He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.
3. These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.
4. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.
5. There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor a spear of moss.
2. He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.
3. These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.
4. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.
5. There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor a spear of moss.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHRUB
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shrub
n. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
2 Laughing hoarsely, he made a desperate leap, and fell short of his mark, though his hands grasped a shrub on the verge of the height.
3 Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.
4 There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor a spear of moss.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
5 The shrubs and grass of the lawn were cut to pieces where hooves and wheels and feet had torn frantically back and forth until the soil was churned up.
6 All the trees, with all their laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active.
7 The roofs, that looked so far away across the green tree-tops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
8 The horses had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks, where, standing in the water, they were left to pass the night.
9 Here they secured themselves, as well as circumstances would permit, among the shrubs and fragments of stone that were scattered about the place.
10 The young Mohican gave a shout of triumph, and followed by Duncan, he glided up the acclivity they had descended to the combat, and sought the friendly shelter of the rocks and shrubs.
11 The Wesleyan chapel, higher up, was of blackened brick and stood behind iron railings and blackened shrubs.
12 Their path to the front led them close to a little side window, whence the rays of candles streamed across the shrubs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
13 He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
14 They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time.
15 "A gloomy wood," according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance.
Example Sentence:
1 He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.
2 These shrubs produce bright red berries.
3 These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.
4 The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.
5 When he bought his house, he began to look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.