GROVE in a Sentence

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For GROVE, below is one of 63 sentences:
Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.

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 Meanings and Examples of GROVE
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grove
 n.  group of trees smaller than a forest; orchard
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Conversation was dying out when, in the lull, everyone in the grove heard Gerald's voice raised in furious accents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  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
5  She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  The cloudy white blossoms of the plum trees filled the grove with a springtime mistiness which gave an illusion of distance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  They were passing a grove of scrub poplars, feeble by day but looming now like a menacing wall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Set back on a swell of land at my right, I saw a wide farm-house, with a red barn and an ash grove, and cattle-yards in front that sloped down to the highroad.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  The brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  It landed in the grove, and exploding redly flung the brown earth.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  From a position in the rear of the grove a battery was throwing shells over it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Looking down an aisle of the grove, the youth and his companion saw a jangling general and his staff almost ride upon a wounded man, who was crawling on his hands and knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  First in this grove did a strange chance meet his steps and allay his fears; first here did Aeneas dare to hope for safety and have fairer trust in his shattered fortunes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  And in the grove is the best place to learn that redwood trees.
2  One of the most productive stand sites I ever had was in a pecan grove.
3  She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.