VERDURE in a Sentence

Learn VERDURE 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.
14 example sentences for VERDURE, such as:
1. The sun had by now risen and shone gaily on the bright verdure.
2. Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure.
3. It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.
4. The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of VERDURE
verdure
 n.  the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
 n.  green foliage
Classic Sentence:
1  Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
3  Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
4  Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
5  The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  He spent his days upon the crystal blueness of the lake or he walked back into the soft thick verdure of the hills and tramped until he was tired so that he might sleep.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  Kay and Gerda took each other's hand: it was lovely spring weather, with abundance of flowers and of verdure.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
8  The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
9  The sun had by now risen and shone gaily on the bright verdure.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
10  There are two old trees there: one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with verdure in April.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
11  There, in those gay shadows of verdure, a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the twittering forgot to say the humming completed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
12  The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
13  It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  This pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.