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How to use beech in a sentence

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Beech means a tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches. Example: “A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.”

Examples of beech by meaning

nounA tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.

  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

More sentences with beech

  • Beyond the stile stands an attractive row of riverside trees – alder, hazel, beech, hawthorn and ash.2022 February 3, Terry Marsh, Walking the Dales Way: Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere through the Yorkshire Dales, Cicerone Press Limited…. From the entry give
  • Soon the beech trees had put forth their delicate, transparent leaves.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, New York: Macmillan. From the entry put forth
  • The looper caterpillar has been very abundant on beech and mapletrees.1902, Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, pages 144, 863, and 897. From the entry mapletree
  • More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry sudden oak death
  • Important predatory groups in the beech forest at Göttinger Wald are chilopods, spiders, carabid and staphylinid beetles and gamasid mites.2009, M. Schaefer, S. Migge-Kleian, S. Scheu, “Chapter 12: The Role of Soil Fauna for Decomposition of Plant Residues”, in Rainer Brumme…. From the entry chilopod
  • Our native beech is undoubtedly the most noble large tree for calcareous soils and is excellent for hedgemaking.1991, The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, page 178. From the entry hedgemaking
  • About three miles away a failed wizard was hanging by his hands from a high branch in a beech tree.1983, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, published 2022, page 107. From the entry beech tree
  • They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 11. From the entry displayed
  • Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm.1900, Frederick Rolfe, In His Own Image, John Lane, pages 323–324. From the entry smaragdine
  • The sanctuary's other habitats include forests of black cherry, red cedar, black locust, beech, and oak, with red maples and black gums in wet areas.2011, John S. Burk, The Wildlife of New England: A Viewer's Guide, page 175. From the entry black gum
  • Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds.2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3. From the entry ursophile
  • The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees.2001, Alan Tate, “Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris”, in Great City Parks, London; New York, N.Y.: Spon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page…. From the entry robinia
  • Besides oak, small amounts of beech and large numbers of ‘doddards’ (probably moribund oak, that provided big limbs, crooks and knees) were also taken.2001, Colin R. Tubbs, The New Forest: History, Ecology & Conservation, 2nd edition, Lyndhurst, Hants.: New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust…. From the entry doddard
  • But enough prose — you must come see tree barks, ghostly beech and checkered tupelo, corn-flakey wild cherry, striated franklinia, and dozens more.2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3. From the entry corn-flakey
  • Most of the forests are pine, and deciduous trees (oaks, beech, birch, ash) are practically confined to the pluviose zone of the north and northwest.1993, William A. Dill, Inland Fisheries of Europe, page 154. From the entry pluviose
  • His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry bodge
  • The autumn fields were autumn woods now—oak and beech and maple shadiness—as if they had ridden backward through the years of cultivation into primeval forest.1931, LeRoy MacLeod, Three Steeples: A Tragedy of Earth, page 113. From the entry shadiness
  • For hours the beech tree weeps.1910, Houghton Townley, English Woodlands and Their Story, page 129. From the entry leaf-storm
  • Burnt knight T. ustale, widespread and locally common, inedible (possibly poisonous), in late summer and autumn on soil in broadleaf woodland, ectomycorrhizal on beech and other hardwoods.2020 January 6, Dr. Peter Jarvis, The Pelagic Dictionary of Natural History of the British Isles: Descriptions of all Species with a…. From the entry burnt knight
  • The underbrush is all there, spice brush, buck beech, iron wood and alder and no doubt in the spring of the year, there is a wealth of flowers.2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water. From the entry buck
  • Presently we saw a tiny, wedge-shaped grey bird, with infinitesimal, clingsome feet, that glided in and out between the branches of the beech hedge like a noiseless, living shuttle.1916, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Content with Flies. From the entry clingsome
  • A beech tree, he told us, could also be valuable if it was “spolted,” that is, when the rot from fungi penetrates into the wood and draws interesting squiggley lines.2005, Belinda Rathbone, “These Woods, These Cultur’d Plains”, in The Guynd: A Scottish Journal, New York, N.Y.: Quantuck Lane Press…. From the entry squiggley

Meaning of beech

  1. noun A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
  2. noun The wood of the beech tree.

Full definition of beech

Questions about beech in a sentence

How do you use beech in a sentence?
Beech is used as a noun. For example: “A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.”
What is a short sentence with beech?
“For hours the beech tree weeps.”
What does beech mean?
Beech means a tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.

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