Example Sentences

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Palms suck down water like camels, but give back barely enough leafiness to shade a Hula-Hoop.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Palms are freeloader trees: They suck down water like camels, but give back barely enough leafiness to shade a Hula-Hoop.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Then the thin lines return, gentler and more supple, in “Blue Trees” of 1945, an early mature painting; they seem almost to sway within the soft masses of blue and mauve leafiness of different trees.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

An accompanying kale Caesar circumvented excess healthiness with almost as much grana padano as green leafiness, while dinner rolls had hidden troves of buttery pesto.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2020

The margins of these streams were paradises of leafiness and verdure; the most striking feature being the variety of ferns, with immense leaves, some terrestrial, others climbing over trees, and two, at least, arborescent.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter