vegetable life
Example Sentences
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Underneath that veranda, Fitzgerald writes, if you lifted one of the loose planks, there was a good deal of rustling animal and vegetable life.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014
Somehow a slow batsman seems more vivid in the memory, infused with kind of gently throbbing vegetable life.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
The evolution of animal from vegetable life is also dealt with simply, by showing the absence of a clear dividing line at or near the lowly, ambiguous bacterium.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have interpreted them in my own way," he said, "endowing them with animal and vegetable life, and with that mysterious growth of the mineral world."
From Time Magazine Archive
Animal life is fed and sustained by respiration, as well as vegetable life.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.
