I remember that when I was a small boy quite a colony lived in the ombu trees growing about my home; now it is nearly extinct, and one may spend years on the plains without meeting with a single example.
We had a long day's ride over the same rich green plain, abounding with various flocks, and with here and there a solitary estancia, and its one ombu tree.
His battered body was then taken down and buried in a deep hollow at some little distance from the last of the long row of ombu trees.
That was what she was called, because there was a solitary grand old ombu tree growing about a hundred yards from the house--a well-known landmark in the district.
Francisco sat under his favourite ombu tree, watching a manganga, or carpenter bee, that was humming loudly in the foliage above his head and looking like a shining ball of gold among the green leaves.
The ombu is a handsome tree to the eye, not unlike an English walnut in its habit of growth, and it has the one merit of being a splendid shade-tree.
The only indigenous tree is the ombu, and the ombumakes itself conspicuous by its rarity.
In a few moments the gigantic water-spout struck the ombu and enveloped it in its watery folds.
This ombu measured one hundred feet in height, and might have covered with its shade a circumference of three hundred and sixty feet.
The flames sometimes rose to a prodigious height, and seemed almost lost in the atmosphere, and sometimes, beaten down by the hurricane, closely enveloped the OMBU like a robe of Nessus.
The OMBU now began to drift rapidly along, impelled by wind and current.
The OMBU was borne onward so rapidly by the impetuous torrent, that anyone might have supposed some powerful locomotive engine was hidden in its trunk.
Twenty minutes afterward, the OMBU stopped short with a violent jolt.
The whole party in the OMBU felt agitated and oppressed, and not one of them could close his eyes.
Not a single tree was visible on the liquid plain; the OMBU stood alone amid the rolling waters, and trembled before them.
This OMBU measured in height a hundred feet, and covered with its shadow a circumference of one hundred and twenty yards.
The OMBU produced no fruit, though fortunately, it would likely abound in fresh eggs, thanks to the numerous nests stowed away among the leaves, not to speak of their feathered proprietors.
About ten of them were there, lashing the water with their powerful tails, and attacking the OMBU with the long teeth of their lower jaw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ombu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
