GROVES in a Sentence

Learn GROVES 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.

63 example sentences for GROVES, such as:

1. orange groves sleeping in the moonlight, broke the.
2. She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
3. Now they draw nigh the groves of Trivia and the roof of gold.
4. And in the grove is the best place to learn that redwood trees.
5. One of the most productive stand sites I ever had was in a pecan grove.

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grove
 n.  group of trees smaller than a forest; orchard
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  The fleet he hides close in embosoming groves beneath a caverned rock, amid shivering shadow of the woodland; himself, Achates alone following, he strides forward, clenching in his hand two broad-headed spears.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  Now they draw nigh the groves of Trivia and the roof of gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
3  His house, stately and vast, crowned the city, upreared on an hundred columns, once the palace of Laurentian Picus, amid awful groves of ancestral sanctity.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
4  These are of the Fescennine ranks and of Aequi Falisci, these of Soracte's fortresses and the fields of Flavina, and Ciminus' lake and hill, and the groves of Capena.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
5  The groves of Egeria nursed him round the spongy shore where Diana's altar stands rich and gracious.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
6  Whence also hoofed horses are kept away from Trivia's temple and consecrated groves, because, affrighted at the portents of the sea, they overset the chariot and flung him out upon the shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
7  Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
8  orange groves sleeping in the moonlight, broke the.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
9  They are the children of the groves and fountains, and of the holy waters that run down into the sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
10  It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
12  Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
13  The sandbars, with their clean white beaches and their little groves of willows and cottonwood seedlings, were a sort of No Man's Land, little newly created worlds that belonged to the Black Hawk boys.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
14  My man worked in the orange groves in Florida, and he knows all about grafting.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
15  The disordered, hurrying lines of the enemy could sometimes be seen down through the groves and little fields.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
2  And in the grove is the best place to learn that redwood trees.
3  One of the most productive stand sites I ever had was in a pecan grove.