CYPRESS in a Sentence

Learn CYPRESS from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For CYPRESS, below is one of 8 sentences:
The character of the pine and cypress is shown in frigid winter ; the sincerity of one's friend is shown in adverse circumstances.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of CYPRESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cypress
 n.  coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus, it is mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability
Classic Sentence:
1  Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  First they build up a vast pyre of resinous billets and sawn oak, whose sides they entwine with dark leaves and plant funereal cypresses in front, and adorn it above with his shining armour.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
2  The character of the pine and cypress is shown in frigid winter ; the sincerity of one's friend is shown in adverse circumstances.
3  The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
4  This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.