greenery
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The outside of the property comes complete with lush greenery, direct beach access, and advanced security.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
“There are concrete houses and structures taking the place of greenery and that’s also adding heat to the atmosphere,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
As well as seeing greenery on a trip to Madeira, Portugal, in 2017, the couple took inspiration from Cornwall's Eden project - where thousands of plant species grow.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The man scouted around the patio and yard area, apparently for something to obstruct the camera before settling on some greenery found in the yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
All around us there was the smell of smoke and filth and deep greenery, and the evening was humid and very hot.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.
From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.
From What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
I stared after her for a moment or more, watching the pretty brown dress flashing in and out of shadow among the ragged greeneries, shafts of sunshine now and then flashing upon her hair.
From The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington
