leaf

Example Sentences

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Field voles, hedgehogs and other ground‑nesting species rely on dense vegetation, leaf piles and scrub for shelter during the colder months.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

In addition to French green lentils, you’ll need a medium yellow onion, carrots, garlic, bay leaf, vegetable broth, diced cooked ham, olive oil, cracked black pepper, sea salt and za’atar.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

Wearing a thick navy jacket over a wool sweater, Ivannikov, the head of the department of tropical and subtropical plants, picked up a leaf that had just come rustling down.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

“If I were Paramount ... I would view this as a tea leaf that there might be a little bit of an opening here, to the extent we were to be aggressive,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

When she flipped it over with her bamboo flipping stick and then neatly back into her banana leaf, it was just bread, because cooking bread was what she had to do today.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr