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How to use leafy in a sentence

34 example sentences · adjective

Leafy means covered with leaves. Example: “They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.”

Examples of leafy by meaning

adjectiveContaining much foliage.

  • a leafy avenue
  • The Earth is facing a climate crisis, but it’s also getting greener and leafier.2019 February 13, Emily Dixon, “China and India are making the planet greener, NASA says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024

adjectiveResembling a leaf.

  • Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025

adjectiveWealthy, middle- or upper-class.

  • They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
  • Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas.2008 January 23, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of...
  • Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.2014 July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, in Daily Telegraph, archived...

More sentences with leafy

  • There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.From the entry lane
  • The house was situated in a leafy alcove.From the entry alcove
  • And by greens I mean leafy greens, leaves on plants (such as tomato leaves), and herbs.2017, Jenn Louis, Kathleen Squires, The Book of Greens: A Cook's Compendium, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry greens
  • Best sources lean red meat, poultry, fish, dark green, leafy vegetables and wholegrain cereals.2009 January 25, By Joanna Hall, “Teen tips for healthy eating”, in Herald Sun. From the entry wholegrain
  • At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong.2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry draw
  • In those secluded areas, leafy lanes give way to gardens, pools and high-end houses.2005 April 22, Alex Frew McMillan, “Hong Kong is hot again”, in The New York Times (Real Estate section), New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Deep Water Bay
  • The Norwalk juices everything that is juiceable, including wheat grass and all leafy greens.1997, Yoga Journal (number 132, Jan-Feb 1997, page 102). From the entry juiceable
  • The liverworts are either thallose, without any differentiation into stem and leaves, or leafy.1929, Shiv Ram Kashyap, Liverworts of the Western Himalayas and the Panjab Plain, volume I, page 1. From the entry liverwort
  • From moist, dim nook and leafy tent, The fresh, wild breath of spring outsent.1913, Munsey's magazine, volume 48. From the entry outsend
  • The tranquil, leafy, suburb-by-the-sea, with low-rise housing and low-density population, offers its middle-class residents a welcome escape from city life.2018 November 29, Cliff Buddle, “Save Discovery Bay! Residents fear their expat haven is turning into a Chinese tourist trap”, in South…. From the entry Discovery Bay
  • But none drew my eye quite like the cabbage raabs, which looked like red and green leafy microphones.2018, Paul Zitarelli, 36 Bottles of Wine: Less Is More with 3 Recommended Wines per Month Plus Seasonal Recipe Pairings, Sasquatch Books…. From the entry raab
  • Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry broccoli
  • It could be the tender-stemmed and elegant choi sum, the purple-veined spinach or the fat, leafy bulbs of pak choi.2001 April 29, Nigel Slater, “Choi rider”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 May 2014. From the entry choi sum
  • Cabbage, lettuce, and other leafy vegetables will do well.1999, Peter Geiger, Ray Geiger, Sondra Duncan, Farmer's Almanac. From the entry do well
  • The stipes or bare portion of the frond is, as a rule, about the same length as the leafy portion.1917, S. Leonard Bastin, How to Know the Ferns, London: Methuen & Co. From the entry stipe
  • A thousand random fragrances of morn Float from lush solitudes and leafy dells, While summer's sunwings rest on lake and tree.1910, William Dowsing, Sheffield Vignettes: A Series of Sonnets, page 3. From the entry sunwing
  • Chinese yu choy is one of the sweetest-tasting Chinese leafy green vegetables available, especially when they are picked when young and tender.2016 January 19, “Easy Chinese yu choy sum”, in The Woks of Life. From the entry yu choy
  • Outside in a spacious, leafy courtyard complete with table service, Double Bay matrons rub shoulders with trendies and gentilshommes of every description.1985 January 15, Geoffrey Stackhouse, “Fast Licks”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,880, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Good…. From the entry gentilhomme
  • The place where the miracle occurred was green and leafy and not at all the sparse sanded land that you were later to see.1976, Edna O'Brien, chapter 3, in Mother Ireland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 66. From the entry sanded
  • There the tire-tracks swept round a curve, away from the leafy stormy hill lane that had a rusty iron smell of cottages and pigscots.1956, Gwyn Jones, Welsh Short Stories, page 61. From the entry pigscot
  • The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry anemone
  • Include low-mercury fish in your diet (such as salmon) and eat at least five servings a day of fruit and vegetables, especially dark leafy greens, broccoli, and cauliflower.2012 March, “Flexing your brain”, in Consumer Reports on Health, volume 24, number 3, page 9. From the entry fish
  • Noons—we would have the Jerusalem artichoke at least three times a week; then salsify soups or parsnips, lentils and the green beans or leafy vegetables—these all in their combinations.2002, William A. McGarey, Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods: For Body, Mind, and Soul, page 50. From the entry noons
  • I remember that singkamas became a decorative air plant in our homes; hung from a wall, it would sprout a sprig that grew into a leafy vine.1989, Benjamin M. Pascual, The Happy Time of an Ilocano Boy, and Other Essays, page 43. From the entry singkamas
  • Or in the dae, a-vleeren droo The leafy trees, the huosse gookoo Da zing to mowers that da zet Their zives on end, an' stan' to whet.1928, The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs: for the Open Air, page 169. From the entry zive
  • The prettily decoratable tables of refreshments were embowered in tall leafy boughs, giving the appearance of a forest and amid this greenry lights were sending out a crimson glow.1910 November, “Club Column. The Saturday Club.”, in The Home Record, volume XXXIX, number 11, Leavenworth, Kan.. From the entry decoratable
  • With the hand-ax Calem slashed down some saplings and fashioned a pair of half-shelters for them, using his catch-rope to lash the poles together and thatching each with leafy slashings.1993, Theodore V. Olsen, Canyon of the Gun and Haven of the Hunted, page 7. From the entry catch-rope
  • In the Stag's-horn Clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum, Fig. 3 III, IV) these strobili are even elevated above the main system of creeping shoots on an upright, elongate and sparsely leafy "podium".1992, Focko Weberling, translated by R. J. Pankhurst, Morphology of Flowers and Inflorescences, translation of Morphologie der Blüten und…. From the entry stag's-horn clubmoss

Meaning of leafy

  1. adjective Covered with leaves.
  2. adjective Containing much foliage.
  3. adjective In the form of leaves (of some material).

Full definition of leafy

Questions about leafy in a sentence

How do you use leafy in a sentence?
Leafy is used as an adjective. For example: “They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.”
What is a short sentence with leafy?
“a leafy avenue”
What does leafy mean?
Leafy means covered with leaves.

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