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Example sentences for "elm"

Lexicographically close words:
ellos; ells; ellum; ellwand; ellys; elman; elmen; elmet; elms; elne
  1. After I left Elm Park, I rode round by Leytonstone and called upon Mr. Gibbons.

  2. Homewood has been a pleasant house for you to live in; far pleasanter than Elm Park can ever prove.

  3. Will not your sister be a vast deal better off at Elm Park with everything money can buy, than your little Mrs. Mortomley at Homewood with the sheriff's officer in possession?

  4. They buried him under a great elm on the bank of the river, just beyond the boundary of the town-site; the name of which was changed to Cincinnati a short time after his death.

  5. Though the moon was full and one could see quite distinctly it was sometime before she found him in the shadow of a great elm near the creek.

  6. I sat under the old elm trees reading a work on Early Egyptian Civilization, which declared that the recorded history of that ancient people began when Menes was king, about 4300 B.

  7. The first time I went down to the springhouse, I saw a vividly-colored golden robin or hangnest restlessly flitting about the old elm trees and occasionally bursting into loud-noted song.

  8. The road follows the creek and is canopied by sycamore, elm and birch trees or grape vines and other creepers.

  9. On a horizontal limb of an elm tree about ten feet from the ground I noticed a few twigs and roots placed on the limb.

  10. Thus the branching system of the elm is peculiarly adapted to their style of architecture.

  11. In the mating season he can be seen perched on the topmost twig of one of the graceful drooping limbs of the elm bush, a little blue ball of feathers, throat expanded, pouring forth sweet music.

  12. Father and I labored some years in sight of the great elm stump.

  13. One was an elm which stood on the flat of the Ecorse.

  14. With their usual care and foresight they have guarded the celebrated elm on Boston common.

  15. Cowley speaks of the "beauteous marriageable Vine," and Browne writes of "the amorous Vine that in the Elm still weaves.

  16. Beaumont tells us that-- "The amorous Vine, Did with the fair and straight-limbed Elm entwine.

  17. The Elm is held to be under the influence of Saturn.

  18. The Elm was preferred to any other tree by the ancients as a prop for Vines, and this connexion has led to numerous fanciful notices by the poets of all ages.

  19. In olden times, the falling of the leaves of an Elm was thought to prognosticate a murrain.

  20. In Devon and Cornwall the Lilac is known as May-flower, and much virtue is thought to be attached to a spray of the narrow-leaf Elm gathered on May morning.

  21. White elm is poor stuff, but slippery elm is better.

  22. A slippery elm tree was near by, and I was told to make a poultice of the roots of the slippery elm and fill the wound with it.

  23. My boy Willard procured the slippery elm from the roots of the tree; I made the poultice and applied it.

  24. At the door Norton told Jones what had taken place at 49 Elm Street.

  25. When Norton arrived at the Henderson place, a footman informed him from the veranda that General Henderson was at 49 Elm Street for the evening, and it would be wise to call there.

  26. Jim nodded his thanks and set off in haste for 49 Elm Street.

  27. The drooping elm differs from the type in the height of the arch and greater droop of the branches, which sometimes sweep the ground.

  28. Hardy throughout New England; prefers a moist, rich soil, in open situations; less variable in habit than the American elm and a smaller tree with smaller foliage, scarcely varying enough to justify its extensive use as a substitute.

  29. The country on both sides has the same character of prairies, with no timber; with occasional lowlands covered with cottonwood, elm and oak: our hunters had killed an elk and a beaver: the catfish too are in great abundance.

  30. By his side she was buried, under the great elm tree, but not until she had lived many years in the cottage with Violet--the happiest years of her life.

  31. They buried Reuben under a great elm tree in sight of his own garden, and where he had often rested after his work, and watched the orioles building their nests or teaching their young to sing.

  32. The chrysalis may be found attached to an elm twig or leaf about the end of June.

  33. It is out on the wing in July, and should be looked for in wooded country where the common elm (Ulmus campestris) and the wych elm (U.

  34. The Pitkin elm was noted among the great trees of New England.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ebony; oak; tree; wood