ORCHARD in a Sentence

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60 example sentences for ORCHARD, such as:

1. He's down in the orchard splittin rails.
2. She hired out to the owner of an apple orchard.
3. Scarlett's search was futile until in the orchard she found a few apples.
4. The orchard was cleared of underbrush and only daisies grew beneath the long rows of trees.
5. She went through the orchard under the bare boughs and the damp weeds beneath them wet her feet.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORCHARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
orchard
 n.  garden; area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  Scarlett's search was futile until in the orchard she found a few apples.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  He's down in the orchard splittin rails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  She went through the orchard under the bare boughs and the damp weeds beneath them wet her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Will didn't know what had taken place in the orchard that afternoon and how it had driven Scarlett to desperation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Unbidden, Scarlett's mind went back to that day in the orchard when Ashley's arms shook as he held her, when his mouth was hot on hers as if he would never let her go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  The faintest intimation from him, in the orchard, that some day things might be different and she would never have thought of going to Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The orchard was cleared of underbrush and only daisies grew beneath the long rows of trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  She remembered her promise given last winter in the orchard, that she would never again throw herself at his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  She remembered the cold wind that swept the orchard of Tara and Ashley standing by a pile of rails, his eyes looking beyond her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  Why--why--it had been Ashley in the wintry, windswept orchard at Tara, talking of life and shadow shows with a tired calmness that had more finality in its timbre than any desperate bitterness could have revealed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
11  Again Scarlett was back in the windy orchard of Tara and there was the same look in Rhett's eyes that had been in Ashley's eyes that day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
12  The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
13  She would race about the orchard with us, or take sides in our hay-fights in the barn, or be the old bear that came down from the mountain and carried off Nina.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
14  We were out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break the ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up vines and clip the hedges.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
15  As we walked through the apple orchard, grown up in tall bluegrass, Antonia kept stopping to tell me about one tree and another.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence:
1  Before I left my bed in the morning, little Adele came running in to tell me that the great horse-chestnut at orchard had been struck by lightning in the night.
2  She hired out to the owner of an apple orchard.
3  The iconic icehouse, demolished last year and rebuilt in replica, is situated in the west orchards.
4  The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.