Example Sentences

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After the utter treelessness of our own immediate neighbourhood, the sight of such a mass of foliage is a joy to my eyes.

From Station Life in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)

I am speaking chiefly of the western part of Normandy: the parts about Caen approach more nearly to the flatness, monotony, and dreary treelessness of ordinary French and German scenery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

But even in the matter of its treelessness, I’m told, the prairie is reforming.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

Richard Jefferies, who lived for a while at Hove, blessed also the treelessness of Brighton.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

In Australian use, the word not only implies flatness, but treelessness.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis