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Example sentences for "grove"

Lexicographically close words:
groused; grousing; grout; grouted; grouting; grovel; groveled; groveling; grovelled; grovelling
  1. At the edge of the desert, beyond the houses, there is a clump of palm trees, and within that grove there is a pit.

  2. To the west of the inn stood another grove of palms, through which the street, now become a road, wound out into the desert.

  3. What had Billie told him of a witch's cauldron in the grove of zapote trees, where the old crone had wrought magic which to her, at least, was very real?

  4. I found it in the ashes of Tia Juana's fire; the little fire in the grove of zapote trees where she cooked her tortillas, and brewed her strange concoctions.

  5. Now some have strayed to sit beneath A grove of maples grey, To twine their flowers into a wreath, Or cull a sweet bouquet.

  6. All summer long this place was vocal with the songs of birds, which built their nests in safety among the tall trees of the grove in the rear of the farm.

  7. We found Haught's camp in a grove of yellowing aspens.

  8. We entered another big grove with thin patches of thicket here and there.

  9. At noon we halted in a grassy grove for an hour's rest.

  10. As it turned out I was both wise and lucky, for we rode into a park with many branches, where there was good water and fair grass and a pretty grove of white pines in which to pitch our tents.

  11. We camped in a pine grove close to the rim, a splendid site that under favorable circumstances would have been enjoyable.

  12. At length, just after sunset, we reached the ranch, and rode through orchards of peach and pear and apple trees, all colored with fruit, and down through grassy meadows to a walnut grove where we pitched camp.

  13. By twilight we trotted down into Long Valley, and crossed the main road to camp in a grove we remembered well.

  14. We rode across a grove of widely separated, stately pines, at the far end of which stood a thicket of young pines and other brush.

  15. Hearing that Buddha was in the world and dwelling in the bamboo grove near at hand, understanding moreover his renown and illustrious qualities, he set out that very night for the grove.

  16. At this time on the opposite side of the grove there was a certain chief herdsman, whose eldest daughter was called Nandâ.

  17. And, therefore, I cannot in this grove delay for a longer while in fruitless discussions.

  18. Step by step, like the king of beasts, did he advance watchfully through the grove of wisdom.

  19. Seizing then his bow and his five arrows, with all his retinue of male and female attendants, he went to that grove of "fortunate rest" with the vow that the world should not find peace.

  20. After passing a grove of the stately palms known as the "traveler's tree," they found themselves on a path that led to the bank of a river.

  21. The grove bloomed with myriads of wild roses, with their sweet perfume fraught with recollections of home.

  22. We stopped for a nooning near a grove of trees by the river side.

  23. We will camp here," I said, pointing to a dense grove of trees lower down the stream.

  24. It was far from pleasant, in that uncertain light, to be pushing through the dense trees and shrubbery of the grove beyond.

  25. In the morning we passed a wide grassy plain by the river; there was a grove in front, and beneath its shadows the ruins of an old trading fort of logs.

  26. Supper, a real New England supper served by a cook and a maid already there to take care of them, came next, then a stroll around the grounds, whose limits were uncertain as they strayed off into a little grove chiefly of spruces and pines.

  27. The house in which Frank and Archie lived stood in a grove of stately oak-trees, and, externally, was in perfect keeping with its surroundings.

  28. The grove had not always been as peaceful and quiet as we found it.

  29. The last time he saw it, it was around the neck of a man who was running through the grove at the top of his speed, with Marmion close at his heels.

  30. Isaac went to the chestnut grove this morning.

  31. In a grove of maples on the banks of a swift little river named Mad River, the Hurons built their lodges and their wigwams.

  32. He took his rifle and went up to the chestnut grove an hour or more ago.

  33. Retire into thy grove of eglantine, Where I will all those ravished sweets distill Through Love's alembic, and with chemic skill From the mix'd mass one sovereign balm derive.

  34. Tut drove rapidly, and before long drew up at a tourist camp in a grove some feet back from the road.

  35. Some of our cabins are pretty nice," he said; "and farther back in the grove there is a stream beside which we have built ovens and tables.

  36. Holly Grove Age: 75 "My parents names was Katherine Hill and Bill Burks.

  37. He was to go down to Prarie Grove to get 'Old Man Parks, dead or alive'.

  38. That is near Oak Grove where Lincoln and Garfield and Nat Turner met and talked about slavery.

  39. Just before the Battle of Prairie Grove the Federal men came thru.

  40. With the shades of evening I sought the consecrated grove forbidden to the foot of man; and for the first time presented myself to eyes whose first glance fixed my destiny.

  41. The little pathway along the river side suggests the lovers' walk at sunset as surely as the dark grove speaks of a woodman's hut or a gypsy camp.

  42. After many days of marching and fighting they lay once more in the shadow of the mountains, within a great grove of oak and beech, hickory and maple.

  43. Not far above us is a grove of splendid nut trees, and along the edge of it runs a ravine.

  44. It is near a grove of plantains, on which the gorilla feasts with the gusto of a charter member of the Gourmand Club.

  45. Alice drew him from the house, bleeding and disheveled, and after a tender parting in the grove beside the stream, he started on foot for Mount Pleasant.

  46. Impatient grew Nala as his love increased, and he was wont to wander in a grove within his palace garden musing secretly upon the maiden of faultless form.

  47. Thereafter Vishwamitra led the princes to his hermitage, which was situated in a pleasant grove where deer disported and birds sang sweetly.

  48. So he divested himself of his royal insignia and entered the sacred grove alone.

  49. First of all he hastened towards the Asoka grove to slay Sita.

  50. Pierius says there was a temple of Vulcan in Mount AEtna, in whose grove were dogs that fawned on the pious, but rent the polluted worshippers.

  51. When he had awakened, he walked through the grove and there met him this most beautiful maiden.

  52. In a pleasant grove lay the form of a man who had but then parted from earth.

  53. She is thought to have been invoked against the mephitic exhalations of the earth in the grove of Albunea.

  54. The annual festival, which Strabo describes as occurring in the grove of Feronia, goddess of Nature, became at last a sort of fair.

  55. The ancient Romans had a mysterious divinity called Mephitis, whose grove and temple were in the Esquiliae, near a place it was thought fatal to enter.

  56. The grove of ilex trees is termed the Sacred Grove of Bacchus.

  57. The laurel grove flourished so much, that the Caesars procured thence the boughs and crowns they bore at their triumphs.

  58. A voice was heard in the Grove of Vesta, which skirts the Nova Via at the foot of the Palatine" (Cicero, "Div.

  59. Juvenal describes the spot in his description of the parting of Umbricius and himself: "This is the place where Numa consulted his nocturnal friend the nymph: now the grove of the sacred font is occupied by the remains of Jews.

  60. At the Grove on Saturday last, where I heard, with some surprise, that George Lewis had been sent to Netherby a day or two before with John Russell's proposals to Graham.

  61. It seems George Lewis himself did not expect this offer would be accepted, nor did Clarendon, who told me this when I got to the Grove on Saturday.

  62. I accepted an invitation from a friend to attend a Methodist camp-meeting, which was held in a grove about five miles distant from the Contra Costa Redwoods.

  63. But more than this, there was a little grove of cedars, which, we were told, had been imported from the United States.

  64. Only show me the place, an axe, and a grove of pines.

  65. Assured of this all-important fact, we made our bivouac in a grove of pines, and settled down to the happiest night we had known in weeks.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    batch; bottom; brush; bunch; clump; cluster; copse; crop; dell; forest; gap; gill; glen; group; grouping; grove; hassock; knot; lot; mess; orchard; pass; ravine; shock; slew; stand; thicket; tope; trench; trough; tuft; vale; valley; wisp