Example Sentences

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Driving west from El Hormiguero toward the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the road wends through ceibas, strangler figs, and sapodillas, a tree prized since Maya times for its chicle gum.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023

It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids.

From Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, Theodore

In its vicinity are sugar plantations, tobacco fields, pineapples, cocoanuts, mangoes, royal palms, ceibas, peasants' homes, typical towns and villages, all the life of the people in the city and country.

From Cuba, Old and New by Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)

Farther out it was whipped into a yellow cream by the thrashing branches of uprooted trees, ceibas and cedars, huge as a church, which rolled and tumbled as their submerged limbs caught on the bottom.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

The emerald coronels of the giant ceibas on the far lake verge burned softly with a ruddy glow.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis