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Example sentences for "lichened"

Lexicographically close words:
liceret; licet; lich; liche; lichen; lichenous; lichens; licht; lichted; lichtit
  1. He struggled up through the tangled growth of smartweed and bittersweet, tore a length of lichened boarding from the swaying posts, and walked down the road with it.

  2. And it was inclosed by four neatly mortised lengths of fencing, lichened and silvered by a half-century, it may be, of weather taken as it was sent.

  3. The only clue, afforded by the inscription on a stone tablet set in the lichened bricks, points to it being the handiwork of a Pleydell.

  4. Under eaves of lichened rock she had a winding passage, which none that ever I knew of durst enter but herself.

  5. For the earth was strown with the winter-spread and coil of last year's foliage, the lichened claws of chalky twigs, and the numberless decay which gives a light in its decaying.

  6. It touched into a brighter gold the gorse-bloom on the wayside bushes, and provoked the green-finches to fling their songs into the air from lichened palings and bramble sprays.

  7. She passed between two squared boulders that might have been lichened tombs for Babylon's kings.

  8. We reposed side by side on a lichened log with our toes gouging the green moss, and he rolled a cigarette and proceeded: Like I was just now telling you, his name was Samson Goodhue.

  9. A few plants are growing in the joints between the rocks, and all are lichened over to a greater or less extent, giving evidence that the pile was built a long time ago.

  10. The red sandstones are lichened over; delicate mosses grow in the moist places, and ferns festoon the walls.

  11. Vane passed through the wicket in the lichened limestone wall, and there was a troubled look in his eyes when he came back and took the reins again.

  12. Rock slope and scattered stones were slippery, and Vane found it difficult to keep his footing on some of their lichened surfaces.

  13. So faultlessly formed, so safely saddled to the limb, so exquisitely lichened into harmony with the green around, this tiniest nest speaks for all of the birds.

  14. And though now they were divided between the making of coronachs and the building of their homes, they had still the art to pick a dinner, as it were, off the lichened stone.

  15. A thick growth of ivy round the door was climbing to the eaves at the end of the house farthest from the garden, heightening the rough effect of the lichened stone.

  16. But these cleared as the river narrowed, and we worked up between low banks where scrub birches grew amongst angular blocks of gray, lichened stone.

  17. It was ringed in by a jagged paling of pines, and in the exact centre was a hummocky oasis of gray, lichened stone.

  18. Lichened and weather-beaten, an inscription upon the cornice was yet quite easy to read.

  19. I am writing from the olive yard above the inn; the rugged little Olevano hanging, almost sliding, down the hillside opposite, black houses and yellow-lichened roofs.

  20. And where, in lichened hoariness, The broken marble dial-plate Basks in the Summer's sultriness, Rich houri roses palpitate.

  21. And I watched the crows, that cawed and cried, Hunting the hawk at the forest-side; The bees that sucked in the blossoms slim, And the wasps that built on the lichened limb.

  22. Among the fast-growing nettles beyond the brook scores of rabbits are running to and fro, some sitting up on their haunches with ears pricked, some gamboling round the lichened trunk of the weeping ash tree.

  23. After crossing two or three such fields you come upon an unreclaimed patch, or belt, where grey-lichened rocks are mixed with masses of old furze bushes, and heath and tussocks of pale brome-grass.


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