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Example sentences for "palmettoes"

Lexicographically close words:
palmed; palmerworm; palmette; palmettes; palmetto; palmettos; palmiest; palming; palmist; palmistry
  1. At one point, about two hundred yards out, there was a spot where the saw-palmettoes and bay bushes thinned to almost nothing.

  2. Above them swayed the shining green palmettoes Vocal and plaintive at the winds' caress; While, at the edge of sight, the fluent silver Of sea and bay framed the wide loneliness.

  3. Gray beach, gray twilight, and gray sea-- How strange the scrub palmettoes down the coast!

  4. The stream wound on, the banks grew higher, palmettoes began to appear; they all leaned forward a little in the golden air, they formed the most graceful groups of curiosity.

  5. When dark comes we can hide in the clump of palmettoes and wait.

  6. There is a group of palmettoes close to it.

  7. There's a great, dead, pine tree standing up amongst a clump of palmettoes just to the south of the creek.

  8. The breeze had grown stronger, and had carried the sparks upward to the palmettoes and pines, so full of oil.

  9. At the word, to the horror of Beth who did not understand, the men set fire to the low palmettoes a short distance away where there was an open space.

  10. Scrub palmettoes and grass overhung the bank above, which made him wonder if there was any danger of their catching fire.

  11. The short palmettoes here are grown to the height of fifteen feet.

  12. There were many live oaks and palmettoes and some cypress.

  13. A grove of oranges and palmettoes near Ormond, Florida.

  14. We talk of loading the boat with palmettoes for the St. Louis fair market, and getting a tow north, if we cannot get a fair price for the outfit.

  15. In the swamps the palmettoes raise their broad fans, the live oaks rear their brawny trunks, and bits of green life show up on all sides.

  16. A fringe of palmettoes farther east was lost in the mists where the inland waterways met the sea.

  17. Most of these green mud flats were treeless, but far off in the direction of that smoke smudge, which was her destination, the horizon was broken by palmettoes and pines.

  18. Out of the region of magnolias, palmettoes and live-oaks you pass into the region of pines, and out of the region of pines into that of maples and elms.

  19. At the garita Drum's battery and the Palmettoes were pushed forward under the guns of the citadel, and large numbers were uselessly sacrificed.

  20. The Palmettoes advanced most gallantly, led by their gallant colonel, Butler; but some hesitancy was manifested by the other commands, who retired under cover of the hacienda or crowded behind the Palmettoes.

  21. The land about the fort is for the most part sandy, and produces only pines naturally, these however have been rooted out, and dwarf oaks and palmettoes have since sprouted out.

  22. It stands in the midst of a venerable church-yard, under lofty live oaks and hickories, with palmettoes and macaw trees growing between the graves.

  23. The soil around the forts, also consisting of sand only, yields palmettoes and dwarf oaks.

  24. The woods were hanging full of the hateful Spanish moss, and a number of palmettoes were the only variety afforded.


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