MAPLE in a Sentence

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For MAPLE, below is one of 17 sentences:
That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAPLE
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maple
 n.  tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species
Classic Sentence:
1  I want you to come around and saw up four cords of maple for me, he says.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
3  As I passed the Methodist Church, I saw three white figures ahead of me, pacing up and down under the arching maple trees, where the moonlight filtered through the lush June foliage.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
4  The leaves of the overhanging maple rustled with melody in the wind of youthful summer.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
5  Go, pick up my things, like a cherub, as you are, said Jo, dropping down under a maple tree, which was carpeting the bank with crimson leaves.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
6  Look,' said Arkady suddenly, 'a dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Most of all when this horse already stood framed with beams of maple, storm clouds roared over all the sky.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
8  Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  The maples were orange; the oaks a solid tint of raspberry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  My pine forest beloved of me these many years, my grove was on the mountain's crown, whither men bore my holy things, dim with dusky pine and pillared maples.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
Example Sentence:
1  In the small town, the native north American sugar maple can be seen everywhere.
2  Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees.
3  We get maple syrup from the sap that can exude from the trees in early spring.
4  The maple leaf is the emblem of Canada.
5  The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
6  The national emblem of Canada is a maple leaf.
7  There is a maple leaf in Canada's national flag.