leafy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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
Cyclospora is a parasite that contaminates leafy greens, berries and herbs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
He hit a leafy branch which broke his fall and he landed in deep grass and was awake.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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
But recent population growth in the leafier suburbs outside Washington DC and increased Hispanic immigration have given the Democrats a boost.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2012
The ground we’re running on is getting a bit steeper side to side, taking us thru leafier, lighter trees and first closer to the river and then away from it again as we run.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
Despite his being so associated with concrete, glass and gold, Jamaica Estates is one of the leafiest suburbs of New York, counting nearly 6,000 trees.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2016
They had reached the extreme limit of the park, where the leafiest olive trees were growing.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
