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Example sentences for "late summer"

  • They hang in thick clusters, paler green than the leaves, and often flushed with a rosy tinge in late summer.

  • In late summer a great pyramid of bloom rises above the foliage.

  • The red fruits, called haws, adorn the trees in late summer.

  • Nichols suggests to me the following additional field characters: This phalarope holds its gray plumage well into the spring and adults quickly resume same when they go to sea in late summer.

  • What seems to be a late summer plumage of birds of the year, on the other hand, is less white than the corresponding one of the northern.

  • Adults probably have a partial prenuptial molt in early spring and a complete postnuptial molt in late summer, but there are no well marked seasonal differences in plumage.

  • This hill was a favorite resort for warblers in late summer.

  • By June this song is heard about as frequently as the territory song, and in late summer, after the molt, it is the one most commonly heard.

  • There is one complete, annual molt in late summer.

  • In late summer, and after hibernation, in the spring.

  • It feeds low down on the stems of reed (Phragmites communis) and is full grown in the spring of the second year following that in which it left the egg in late summer.

  • Varieties increased by layers in late summer, under glass, or by veneer grafting.

  • Budding is commonly performed during the growing season, usually in late summer or early fall, because mature buds can be procured at that time and young stocks are then large enough to be worked readily.

  • The cuttings may be taken in spring and placed directly in the ground, but better results are obtained by taking them in the fall or late summer.

  • Increased by seeds sown outside in late summer or in spring, thinning out when necessary.

  • It ripens in late summer or early fall, and so is like its close relative, the sugar maple, but unlike its close relatives, the red maple and silver maple.

  • It ripens in late summer, and is edible, although it has a slightly bitter taste.

  • The supply carried over from the spring is put on in late summer, and the manure made in the early part of the winter can be drawn to the field fast as made.

  • This charming Pentstemon is one of the most gracious flowers to be found in the Sierras in late summer.

  • If one takes his alpenstock in hand and climbs to the snow line in late summer, he is apt to be rewarded by the charming flowers of the Sierra primrose.

  • Early in the season it is an exquisite thing, when covered with its delicate clusters of bright-blue flowers, and it is no less attractive in late summer, when its odd scarlet fruit studs the rich green foliage.

  • It is an excellent forage-plant, and in late summer, when our cattle have eaten everything else, they feed upon the little burs, which are very nutritious in themselves.

  • It is ordinarily most advisable to grade the lawn in late summer or early fall, because the land is then comparatively dry and can be moved cheaply.

  • This plant makes a fine show in late summer.

  • When full grown, it enters the ground, changes in late summer to the beetle, which finally goes into hibernation in sheltered places.

  • How gay the ditches and low meadows are with its bright, generous bloom in late summer, and until even the goldenrod wands turn brown!

  • Small terminal umbels of delicate pink and white fragrant flowers, which appear from May till July, give place to very narrow pointed pods in late summer.

  • In late summer an egg-shaped, pendulous red-purple berry swings from the summit.

  • Diminution of surface activity and retirement to underground retreats seem to be closely correlated with cessation of rains in late summer.

  • They made rapid growth in August, averaging larger than young hatched in other years on any given date in late summer.

  • It is a tree well worth bringing in from the woods to set in a bare fence-corner that will be beautified by the blossoms in spring, and in late summer by the bright orange-colored fruit against the ruddy foliage.

  • In late summer, green capsules, each with a curving style at the top, cluster where the flowers stood, but these are scarcely ornamental.

  • The only fault the landscape gardener can find with this red haw, is that its abundant fruit, ripe in late summer, falls in September.

  • The showy fruits look like scarlet olives hanging among the glossy foliage in late summer.

  • Flowering as it does in late summer it is rendered of special value, the Daisy-like white blossoms being produced in large and flat clusters at the branch tips.

  • The flowers, which are individually small and yellow, are so thickly produced that the shrub, in late summer, has the appearance of a sheet of gold.

  • The flowers are produced in late summer, but remain in good form for fully two months, dying off a rich reddish hue.

  • Now, like her fields, she had come to late summer, to the season of fulfilment.

  • What is the condition of ground-hogs in late summer and in autumn?

  • The young grasshoppers may be found in spring or early summer, and a few even in late summer, among the grass of old meadows and pastures.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "late summer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual settlers; beaten together; bronze sword; falls back; great pain; had not; hath come; late afternoon; late date; late friend; late hour; late spring; later addition; later ages; later editions; later hand; later letter; later page; later stage; later works; later writers; lateral buds; lateral line; must think; not been; stem short