FOREST in a Sentence

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For FOREST, below is one of 313 sentences:
"In another year, there'll be little pines all over these fields," she thought and looking toward the encircling forest she shuddered.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOREST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forest
 n.  a large area of land covered with trees and plants
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  In the rays of the late afternoon sun, every well-remembered field and forest grove was green and still, with an unearthly quiet that struck terror to Scarlett's heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  She never looked out of her window at green pastures and red fields and tall tangled swamp forest that a sense of beauty did not fill her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  The animals had been frightened, cold, ravenous, wild as forest creatures, the strong attacking the weak, the weak waiting for the weaker to die so they could eat them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  "In another year, there'll be little pines all over these fields," she thought and looking toward the encircling forest she shuddered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  Every time she thought of that malignant black face peering at her from the shadows of the twilight forest road, she fell to trembling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
9  A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  They drove from the natural prairie to a cleared district which twenty years ago had been forest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Francisco and a forest of sequoias.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  She told me that in her village at home there was an old beggar woman who went about selling herbs and roots she had dug up in the forest.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
13  They had been gathered, probably, in some deep Bohemian forest.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
14  There was a white hart that lived in that forest, and if anyone killed it, he would be hanged, she said.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
15  The roof was so steep that the eaves were not much above the forest of tall hollyhocks, now brown and in seed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
16  She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.
17  The enemy have advanced to the edge of the forest.
18  He lives at the extreme edge of the forest.
19  Acid rain has a devastating effect on the forest.
20  Clearing trees by burning is highly destructive of the forest environment.
21  Some species exist in this small area of forest and nowhere else on Earth.
22  A cigarette spark started the forest fire.
23  That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
24  They went on a ten-mile hike through the forest.
25  The elephants rampaged through the forest.
26  The elephant crashed through the forest.
27  In a forest, wet wood and needles attenuate the signals.
28  They pierced through the thick forest.
29  He led us on,into a dense forest.
30  Large sections of the forest have been destroyed by acid rain.