A very few stunted deodars, and a single tree of Pinus Gerardiana, were the only trees met with.
There was no cultivation; but about a mile to the east, a long sloping tract of alluvium interposed between the mountains and the river was covered with green fields, though it had only two houses and not a single tree.
Upon the 6th of November a small island, or rather rock, some five hundred fathoms long, upon which not a single tree grew, and which was thickly covered with guano, was discovered.
Now these islands do not possess a single tree, and the good harbours, as we shall presently see, are anything but numerous, so we can judge of the exactitude of the observations made by Rogers.
The English sailors landed and upon advancing into the interior, met only with a desert country, and sandy hills, without a single tree.
This interesting but commercially unimportant oak was named by Michaux from a single tree found in a field belonging to John Bartram near Philadelphia more than a century ago.
It was formerly found in Missouri--a single tree--which was afterwards destroyed.
The hackberry's warts catch and hold every flying strand of moss that touches them, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of pounds of it may accumulate on a single tree.
He took no cannibal with him, but he ordered their boats, dug out of single tree-trunks, to be destroyed, and on the eve of the ides of November he weighed anchor and left Guadaloupe.
Their canoes are constructed out of single tree-trunks, which they dig out with tools of sharpened stone.
These barques, like the others, are dug out of a single tree-trunk, but are less well shaped and less easy to handle than those used by the cannibals and the natives of Hispaniola.
Their canoes are formed out of a single tree, hollowed and forced open by cross-pieces.
It is remarkable not only for its bright colour, but for its curious pendent nests, of which frequently fifty are seen hanging together from the branch of a single tree.
In Europe Pliny mentions the use of canoes hollowed out of a single tree by the Germans.
The travellers longed for the sight of a forest, or grove, or single tree, to break the level uniformity, and began to notice every object that gave reason to hope they were drawing towards the end of this weary wilderness.
The banks sloped gently to its margin, without a single tree, but bordered with grass and herbage of a vivid green.
Some are upwards of fifty feet long, cut out of a single tree, either fir or white cedar, and capable of carrying thirty persons.
When we came to the shore I landed, and walked a little way into the country, which as far as I could see was all downs, without a single tree or shrub.
The land here has the same appearance as about Port Desire, all downs, without a single tree.
As it requires no drink, and can live without any other food than the leaves of the cecropia, of course it remains on a single tree so long as it has plenty of leaves.
That sometimes a whole tribe, of fifty or more, make their home in a single tree; and do so to secure themselves against savage beasts, and sometimes equally savage men.
Some doubt, however, seems to exist as to whether it should be considered as a single tree, or as a number of individuals which have sprung from a decayed stock, and become united at the base.
As a large tract of wood requires a few large clumps to connect it gently with the plain, so these large clumps themselves require the same service from a single tree, or a few trees, according to their size.
As conclusive proof of there having been a crannog in this former lake-bed, a stratum of burnt oak, a canoe scooped out of a single tree, together with four short paddles, were dug up from the peat.
On the banks were canoes, which, in the Indian fashion, were hewed out of a single tree.
The soil in front of the line consisted of perfectly level cane fields, which had been cut down, not a single tree or bush was to be found.
The amount of superficial surface exposed by the foliage of a single tree is immense.
The difference between the temperature of the air under and among the branches of a single tree, densely leaved, and the surrounding air, on a hot day, is instantly realized by the laborer or traveler who seeks the shade.
Illustration: "It was hollowed out of a single tree-trunk.
They fight skillfully with bows and clubs, and have boats hollowed from a single tree, yet very capacious, in which they make fierce descents on neighboring islands, inhabited by milder people.
It was eight feet wide, and as long as a galley, though formed of the trunk of a single tree.
It is utterly destitute of wood, and has not a single tree of native growth.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single tree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
