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How to use leaf in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Leaf means the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. Example: “The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.”

Examples of leaf by meaning

nounThe usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7

nounA sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

  • Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.1900, Profitable Advertising, volume 10, number 2, page 893

nounA moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

  • The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
  • The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.1914, Department of Bridges, City of New York, Report, page 90
  • This is desirable because the load on the leafs is the greatest when they are closed due to air pressure.1992 July 21, William R. Kennedy, John M. Kennedy, Power mine door system, US Patent 5,222,838

nounIn a tree, a node that has no descendants.

  • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

verbTo divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

  • The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

More sentences with leaf

  • Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.From the entry grow
  • Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising.From the entry turn over a new leaf
  • Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).From the entry alternate
  • Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.From the entry print
  • The students studied the reticulation of the veins in the leaf.From the entry reticulation
  • A trijugate leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.From the entry trijugate
  • Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.From the entry litter
  • He chanced upon the definition when leafing through the dictionary.From the entry chanced
  • The leaf buds of the plane tree are subpetiolar.From the entry subpetiolar
  • An individual flower that is subtended by a scale leaf at its junction with the stem of a plant; a rudimentary leaf.From the entry scale leaf
  • "The harvest aid paraquat led to over six times more leaf desiccation and leaf defoliation within 11 days after treatment and was more effective overall than the tribufos harvest aid."From the entry tribufos
  • I managed to draw my wife a leaf after weeks of trials and failures.2025 December 28, Lord_Sahs, “My Very First Leaf”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026. From the entry Quasimoto
  • His pandan, lemongrass, chilli padi, Thai basil and curry leaf plants—their leaves were so green, so glorious.2023, Agnes Chew, Eternal Summer of My Homeland, Epigram Books, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry chilli padi
  • She watered the monstera plant by the window, which was uncurling a new leaf.2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 278. From the entry monstera
  • I let him chew the tip of a burgundy leaf and taste how sourwood got its name.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 17. From the entry sourwood
  • That's the worst for driving trains in the leaf fall season.2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is Nothing You can Do: A Scotrail Driver”, in Rail, number 946, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry mizzly
  • The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.2019 October, Alice Ridley, “Letter from the Editor”, in Connect Magazine, page 4. From the entry lit
  • All life stages can be recorded from the foliage in the case of leaf+dwelling thysanopterans.2017, (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry thysanopteran
  • The popular late-19th-century trend of using gold leaf for decorating brought the goldbeating industry to the area.2017, Thomas Carr, Plainview-Old Bethpage, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry goldbeating
  • Insects were now awake and playing between the pine branches and the leaf drift.2017, Helen McClory, chapter 42, in Flesh of the Peach, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry insectual
  • But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN. From the entry thus
  • She reached in her bag and drew out a leaf from the nosebleed plant she had collected.2016, Jenna Kernan, The Warrior's Captive Bride. From the entry nosebleed plant
  • The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed.2015, Linda Bladholm, Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified, page 343. From the entry duckanoo
  • Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN. From the entry leaf monkey
  • Genomic DNA was isolated from leaf tissue using the Plant Genomic DNA extraction minikit (Favorgen Biotech Corp.).2015 July 8, Ximena Alvarez-Gerding et al., “Improved Salinity Tolerance in Carrizo Citrange Rootstock through Overexpression of…. From the entry minikit
  • Generally orthodox teas have four grades, namely whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust.2013, Victor R. Preedy, Tea in Health and Disease Prevention. From the entry fanning
  • The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN. From the entry leaf monkey
  • In the past, the bouquet garni was a prescribed mixture of thyme, bay leaf, and parsley.2010, Ruth Lively, Cooking from the Garden, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry bouquet garni
  • Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry oud
  • Then, she tore a piece of her banana leaf, and used that to scoop up the payasam.2010, Susan Visvanathan, The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi. From the entry payasam
  • “A long time ago, when I was a baby, I went boom-boom on a leaf.2010 May 3, Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez, “Memories of Boom Boom Mountain” (1:32 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, spoken by Finn…. From the entry boom-boom
  • In Congo-Kinshasan and Zambian material I have seen long hairs have been ± lacking on leaf sheaths.2010, Kim Hoenselaar, Bernard Verdcourt, Henk Jaap Beentje, Muthama Muasya, Dave Simpson, edited by Henk Jaap Beentje, Flora of Tropical…. From the entry Congo-Kinshasan
  • These sterigmata are retained and make the twigs rough for several years after leaf fall.2009, J.E. Eckenwalder, Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference, Timber Press, →ISBN. From the entry sterigma

Meaning of leaf

  1. noun The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  2. noun A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  3. noun Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

Full definition of leaf

Questions about leaf in a sentence

How do you use leaf in a sentence?
Leaf is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.”
What is a short sentence with leaf?
“The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.”
What does leaf mean?
Leaf means the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leaf (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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