GREEN in a Sentence

Learn GREEN 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 GREEN, below is one of 311 sentences:
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
green
 n.  color between blue and yellow, like grass
 a.  of or relating to grass, trees, and other plants
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  They noticed for the first time how her green eyes danced, how deep her dimples were when she laughed, how tiny her hands and feet and what a small waist she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  There remained varicolored cotton dresses which Scarlett felt were not festive enough for the occasion, ball dresses and the green sprigged muslin she had worn yesterday.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  "That," answered Scarlett, pointing at the fluffy mass of green flowered muslin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Mammy carefully dropped the twelve yards of green sprigged muslin over the mountainous petticoats and hooked up the back of the tight, low-cut basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  He only thought that she was pretty and a great credit to him and that, today, her eyes were as green as the hills of Ireland.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
16  The color is yellow inclining to green.
17  Some parents were critical of attempts to indoctrinate children in green ideology.
18  The suspect has dark hair and green eyes.
19  Dark green leaves are a good indication of healthy roots.
20  There is very little difference between the parties on green issues.
21  The report gives a brief nod in the direction of green issues before coming down firmly on the side of the market.
22  In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
23  You don't need green fingers to fill your home with lush leaves.
24  They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
25  There was green scum over the pond.
26  The walls were painted in two shades of green.
27  The room was painted white,with green shutters.
28  Have green trees, have the pulse of the earth.
29  They painted the bathroom a yucky green colour.
30  The once - green fields were now uniformly brown.