fern

Example Sentences

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“No. That’s not why. You chose the name Fern because you loved the way ferns uncoil from fronds, like a dancer.”

From Literature

“Well, I would have chosen some normal kind of plant like a fern, but I guess they wanted something scientific for the teachers’ room.

From Literature

At the meadow’s end, the creek dived into a rocky canyon, the beginning of a 1,500-foot drop through patches of willow, cottonwood and fern.

From Los Angeles Times

Some rayographs, in which simple things—gears, tools, eggs, ferns, glass, cloth—magically transform, are otherworldly.

From The Wall Street Journal

To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times