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Example sentences for "the trees"

  • The trees around us bent before the blast like willows, and we were about to flee in order to seek shelter, when the teacher ran toward us with a knife in his hand.

  • We then waited, and saw something white come through the trees.

  • Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care to keep in the shadows of the trees on the lawn when the moonlight shone out.

  • For instance, hay-ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves.

  • One night as I was wandering slowly along the path leading through the groves of Pen y Coed I was startled by an unearthly cry—it was the shout of the dylluan or owl, as it flitted over the tops of the trees on its nocturnal business.

  • Here the road for about twenty yards is fenced on its dangerous side by a wall, parts of which are built between the stems of the trees.

  • As he went round the trees he saw that blood poured from the cuts in the bark of two of the trees.

  • The water flowed noiselessly over the pebbles, the wind bowed the tops of the trees, flies and chafers darted about, without breaking the silence.

  • As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking for the tiniest bud for more than a month yet.

  • On the outskirts of a village just where the oxen were turned out to pasture, and the pigs roamed about burrowing with their noses among the roots of the trees, there stood a small house.

  • The trimness of the trees, the vivid whiteness of the houses, the breadth, were very agreeable; and he felt himself already thoroughly at home.

  • The green of the trees in the Anlage was violent and crude; and the houses, when the sun caught them, had a dazzling white which stimulated till it hurt.

  • It was in a turret, looking over the tops of the trees in the Anlage; and the bed was in an alcove, so that when you sat at the desk it had not the look of a bed-room at all.

  • The trees of the forest attracted my deep admiration as I proceeded toward the sea.

  • She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees.

  • There were fantastically dressed people under the trees and in the distance there was a glimpse of the turrets of a castle.

  • They are so busy and having such fun under the earth or in the trees or heather.

  • He began to walk about, looking up in the trees and at the walls and bushes with a thoughtful expression.

  • It was strong enough to wave the branches of the trees, and it was more than strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy hanging from the wall.

  • However, before he could put any inclination into effect, the young man saw from amid the trees a bright light shining, the rays from which radiated like needles through the sad plumy foliage of the yews.

  • Sometimes he paused under the low-hanging arms of the trees, looking vacantly on the ground.

  • It ran to the right and to the left, being lost in the trees in both directions, and just before her, upon a big oak, were fastened two signs, with arms pointing both ways.

  • It was so high that only the tops of the trees could be seen above it.

  • So it was nearly sundown when they finally came to the trees; but now they found themselves in a most beautiful spot, the wide-spreading trees being covered with flowering vines and having soft mosses underneath them.

  • Then the zebra trotted back to the forest, bearing the crab with him, and disappeared amid the gloom of the trees.

  • The path to Bunbury seemed little traveled, but it was distinct enough and ran through the trees in a zigzag course until it finally led them to an open space filled with the queerest houses Dorothy had ever seen.

  • Now they were in the trees, worming their way forward, alert for sentinels.

  • Slinking through the lower branches of the trees, leaping lightly from one jungle giant to its neighbor where the distance was not too great, or swinging from one hand hold to another Korak came silently toward the village.

  • The sooner you learn to know it the better; but keep close to the trees, as we go around him, for Numa often does that which he is least expected to do.

  • Where Akut took to the trees at the first scent of Numa, the lad laughed in the face of the king of beasts and walked boldly past him.

  • When the apes had filled their bellies and many of them had sought the bases of the trees to curl up in sleep Akut plucked Korak by the arm.

  • The trees, the thickets, were saturated; the lower parts of the garden turned into a morass.

  • The morning was already beginning to be blue in the trees of the garden, and to put to shame the candle by which I had breakfasted.

  • I saw it written in the face of the hills, in the growth of the trees, and in the glint of the waterbrooks that kept the high-road company.

  • The place seemed hidden away, being not only concealed in the trees of the garden, but, on the side on which I approached it, buried as high as the eaves by the rising of the ground.

  • He took Dick's arm and wandered over to the shade of the trees.

  • Looking up you saw at an immense distance above a pale green roof patined with sparkling and flashing points of light, where the breeze was busy playing with the green fronds of the trees.

  • Dick; and the children started off amongst the trees, Dick pulling at the hanging vine tendrils, and Emmeline plucking what blossoms she could find within her small reach.

  • He kept close in-shore for the sake of the shelter of the trees.

  • Up above, in the trees, the bright-eyed birds were watching them--such a happy party.

  • Presently after she heard a rustle nearer hand, and saw, coming out of the margin of the trees, among the mummy-apples, the appearance of a lean grey old boar.

  • The town slept, and she knew not whither to turn till she heard one coughing in the shadow of the trees.

  • The wind roared in the trees, and it seemed to her the rushing of the flames of hell; the shadows tossed in the light of the street lamp, and they seemed to her the snatching hands of evil ones.

  • She was so close at my heels that the lantern was her guide across the beach, and afterwards, by the glimmer of it in the trees, she got her line up hill.

  • But no fruit grew on the trees, and the seeds they planted shriveled in the earth.

  • The forest looked warm, and it made its way to the trees as well as it could, to ask for help.

  • After carefully scrutinizing several of the trees, we at last saw one that seemed to fill the bill.

  • After what appeared to be long years, the banging stopped, and presently we saw the brute going away among the trees.

  • It was a jolly hot day, and the tables were spread under the trees on the lawn, like a large and very grand Sunday-school treat.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the trees" 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:
    the breath; the door; the dry; the field; the heavens; thee shall; thee would; then beat; then became; then drain; then draw; then drew; then looking; then poured; then proceeds; then ready for use; then spoke; then take; then taking; then those; then very; theoretical knowledge; there had; there was; there would; these words