leaf
noun
one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
leafs
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present tense formof leaf (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Liudmyla leafs through an old photo album containing images of Mykola’s paintings, the closest thing he has to an artist’s monograph, and then brings out a few of the originals she’s packed away for safe-keeping.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
It’s a broadleaf weed that grows in colonies or large groups and have seed leafs that are round and oval with sparse stinging hairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
“My Name Is Andrea” leafs several chapters earlier in the history books to sketch an abstract portrait of the public intellectual Andrea Dworkin.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Walking with Gregory6 in bare treed October ash woods—winds blowing brown sere leafs at feet—talking of dead Jack—the sky an old familiar place with fragrant eyebrow clouds passing overhead in Fall Current—
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 20, 2019
If there is nothing decent on television she leafs through books she takes out of the library, books that occupy the space Ashoke normally does on the bed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
