ELM in a Sentence

Learn ELM 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.

27 example sentences for ELM, such as:

1. The disease blighted oaks and elms.
2. A pigeon was cooing up in one of the elms.
3. That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
4. We replanted the old elm in our back garden.
5. The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELM
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elm
 n.  tree of the genus ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running into the big elm at the bottom.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  She put her lips close against his ear to say: "Right into the big elm."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  There was a last instant when the air shot past him like millions of fiery wires; and then the elm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Anna Hansen shook the reins and they drove on, while I zigzagged back to my inlet and clambered up behind an overhanging elm.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
7  Uncas silently extended toward him the desired gourd, which the spleen of Hawkeye had hitherto prevented him from observing on a branch of an elm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  Against the wall were ranged, in regular array, a long row of elm boards cut in the same shape: looking in the dim light, like high-shouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches pockets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
10  And the shadow of the elm must mean the farther end of the shadow, otherwise the trunk would have been chosen as the guide.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
11  Then I took two lengths of a fishing-rod, which came to just six feet, and I went back with my client to where the elm had been.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
12  He presently halted under a great elm, blew an answering blast, and then began to tiptoe and look warily out, this way and that.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  They arrived hot and panting, and threw themselves down in the shade of a neighboring elm to rest and have a smoke.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
Example Sentence:
1  In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
2  We replanted the old elm in our back garden.
3  The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
4  A pigeon was cooing up in one of the elms.
5  The disease blighted oaks and elms.