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Example sentences for "doum"

Lexicographically close words:
douking; doulce; douleur; douloureux; doulx; doun; doune; dount; dounward; dour
  1. The stoutest part of the fan-shaped leaf of the doum palm is used as a paddle.

  2. The date-trees are not very thickly planted; amongst them I saw several Doum trees, some of which I had already observed in other parts of the peninsula.

  3. That plain is covered with the tree called Doum (Arabic) or Theder (Arabic), which bears a small yellow fruit like the Zaarour.

  4. A valley, with wells and Doum date-trees.

  5. Soweyder lies between two mountains, and has some wells of brackish water dug in the ground; also Doum date-trees.

  6. Timokles found no difficulty in descending with the doum palms' help, and he reflected that perhaps food for the leopard was often brought up this way, and thrown to the creature through the roof's holes.

  7. Here, a little lower as yet than the roof, he found a group of young doum palms, the branching stems of which variety of trees he had noticed here and there in forest-like clumps throughout the oasis.

  8. The desert, on the border of the river hereabouts, abounds with doum trees, which are inhabited by great numbers of monkeys.

  9. Even at this season the doum tree and the acacia, which grew on its borders, were green, and coarse long grass was abundant.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.