leafy
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If you have not got a handy, leafy tree or a pinhole camera, Clough recommends taking a kitchen colander outside to create the same effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A few steps from the hotel, a cantilevered pedestrian bridge spans Falls Park on the Reedy, a wooded ravine with cascading waterfalls and leafy footpaths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
With its sunny elevator-music-scored opening of cheery park scenes and leafy residential neighborhoods, “Ice Cream Man” sets itself up, not unappealingly, like a Norman Rockwell painting asking to be vandalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ediacaran organisms came in many unfamiliar forms, including flat discs, leafy shapes, and ribbed ovals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The spiraling vines of ivy and honeysuckle that twine up the sides turn the whole thing green and leafy.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
When the prestigious Queen Elizabeth’s School accepted him at the age of 11, the family moved into a safer, leafier neighborhood a few miles north.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Look for the longest, freshest sprigs of herbs you can find — rosemary is an obvious contender, but smaller, leafier herbs like sage, thyme, and oregano will do too.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021
Linda Deegan, who had studied coastal ecology at the Marine Biological laboratory in Woodshole, Massachusetts found that overbalance of nitrogen makes marsh plants grow taller and leafier, but with fewer, weaker roots.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021
Stand the leaves up against the side of the bowl so the sturdier white parts are soaking directly in the brine and the leafier green parts are out of the brine.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2020
The grape arbor was leafier than Matt ever remembered, and a small duck paddled away across the water as he approached.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
In recent months, a string of similar incidents in some of Sydney's leafiest and wealthiest suburbs has baffled a nation rather attached to its bushland.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
Maps indicate the leafiest blocks in the city, based on the latest tree census, as well as parks and playgrounds with sprinklers and water fountains.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2020
It doesn’t seem too long ago that an annual salary of $77,832 would be more than enough to keep a family of four happy and safe in the loveliest house in the leafiest suburb.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
And on May 31, "Treehouse Masters" goes out on a limb to display the sprawling luxury treehouses masterminded by "tree whisperer" Pete Nelson and his team for back-to-nature living at its leafiest.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2013
Let us rest In this bright, sheltered nook, now blest With broad noon sunshine over all, Though here June's leafiest shadows fall.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
