How to use grove in a sentence
37 example sentences · noun, verb
Grove means a small forest. Example: “His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.”
Examples of grove by meaning
nounA small forest.
- Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160
More sentences with grove
- His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.From the entry arboricultural
- Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.From the entry publish
- In the wild little grove stood a grand stag watching over his rangale.2024, Patricia Monge, A Quiet Rumble, page 9. From the entry rangale
- They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55. From the entry Querquetulanae
- A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois…. From the entry womxn
- The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century.2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 90. From the entry kurrajong
- They passed alder swamps and bamboo groves and pale green reindeer moss.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870. From the entry reindeer moss
- The name means 'apple grove'; here clearly must once have been another.2005, Mathew Lyons, Impossible Journeys (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101–102. From the entry Kuldja
- Rain drizzled steadily as we entered the semiprotection of a grove of trees.2003, Sharon Dunn, Romance Rustlers and Thunderbird Thieves, page 173. From the entry semiprotection
- The small things—an olive grove or a small chapel—take on greater meaning to a Bobo on vacation.2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry bobo
- School is an ivory tower on the hill; it nestles in the gated groves of academe.1994, Terry O'Banion, A Learning College for the 21st Century, page 11. From the entry townie
- Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria 5+ males holding territory in a popular grove in Aqal town.1992, R. Grimmett, H. Taylor, “Recent bird observations from Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, 16 June to 5 July 1988”, in Forktail…. From the entry aqal
- Lyn and I made a snowchild in the shade of a grove of gums.1992, Beverley Farmer, The Seal Woman, University of Queensland Press, published 1993, pages 129–130. From the entry snowchild
- They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates.1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels. From the entry sticker
- Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, page 120. From the entry parade
- It is known for the beauty of its peaks, waterfalls, bamboo groves and flowers.1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 127. From the entry Yentang
- White-gleaming from the bosky shade of this grove are several goddesses.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry bosky
- Let them stand in groups or groves, with walks and drives convenient to the house.1905, Edward Payson Powell, The orchard and fruit garden. From the entry homeful
- It was calm and surprisingly cool in the mapou grove.2015, Madison Smartt Bell, Soul in a Bottle. From the entry mapou
- She wove her walking around groves and orchards.2013, Aimee Bender, “Appleless”, in The Color Master: Stories, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry red delicious
- Cook through groves of coconut palms and tamarinds and mangoes.2002, Patricia McCune Irvine, A Tinkling Cymbal, page 30. From the entry bushwalk
- Having decimated groves of cedar, quaking asps, weeping willows, poplars, and fruit trees on the last day of January, Alva C.1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy, page 233. From the entry quaking asp
- “Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S.1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11. From the entry pesticide
- The house came into sight, above the cedar grove beyond whose black interstices an apple orchard flaunted in the sunny afternoon.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 26. From the entry flaunt
- I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41. From the entry moonlighted
- The boy hunters had arrived at the wood grove, far off from the wary drove of hares, who resumed foraging cautiously, as before.2026, T.D. Motley, Planting and Painting the Landscape: A Sequel to The Art of Farming, Stoney Creek Publishing Group. From the entry drove
- Authorities in Taiwan’s Yunlin County are considering measures to stop the growing population of macaque monkeys from endangering bamboo groves in Yunlin’s Gukeng Township.2024 May 4, Duncan DeAeth, “Bamboo groves in Taiwan's Yunlin under threat from macaques”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 29…. From the entry Gukeng
- The trees did not occur in groves; however, he discovered a concentration around Kingmen (Jingmen), four or five days’ walk northeast of Ichang.1984, Isabel Shipley Cunningham, “Terra Sancta”, in Frank N. Meyer Plant Hunter in Asia, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry Kingmen
- I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday…. From the entry claybank
- Grove: After many years of unproductive discussion, the reopening of the London-Bristol line station to serve the nearby town of Wantage is back on the agenda.2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, Regional News. From the entry reopening
- Tar spot is a relatively minor disease in the Americas, but it is very common and often is present on 50% of the leaves in a grove.2003, Randy C. Ploetz, Diseases of Tropical Fruit Crops, page 47. From the entry tar spot
- One night a week Brother Jake divided the Scouts into two teams and took them to the Esmeralda cocal (coconut grove) just south of the village.1989, Emory King, The Little World of Danny Vasquez: Memoirs of Old San Pedro, page 95. From the entry cocal
- The train sped on down through Florida, through the forests and swamps, stark and bewitched with Spanish moss, and through the mile upon mile of citrus groves.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 123. From the entry Spanish moss
- His first act was to spring up into the branches of a tall wattle-tree which grows at the extreme edge of her garden amid a grove of blackwood.1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21. From the entry blackwood
- A grove of oaks, sturdy, spreading wide their branches clad in green-bronze leaves, had thrived to the elimination of spruces, except a few giants that could not be choked out.1931, Zane Grey, chapter 14, in Sunset Pass, New York: Pocket Books, page 224. From the entry choke out
- Nothing but blackjacks for miles around it, but on that section, because of the water, I suppose, there were elms and persimmons and cottonwoods and even a grove of pecans.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 23. From the entry blackjack
Meaning of grove
- noun A small forest.
- noun A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
- noun An orchard of fruit trees.
Questions about grove in a sentence
- How do you use grove in a sentence?
- Grove is used as a noun and verb. For example: “His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.”
- What is a short sentence with grove?
- “Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.”
- What does grove mean?
- Grove means a small forest.
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