How To Use Defoliate In A Sentence
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Another guy said it was too bad we weren't Americans'cause if we were, we could call in the B52s and defoliate it.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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Much of the Vietnamese countryside was defoliated using poisons like Agent Orange, so toxic that even the soldiers who did the spraying suffered long-term damage to their health.
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Another guy said it was too bad we weren't Americans'cause if we were, we could call in the B52s and defoliate it.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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The crop was a mutant but bountiful one, and it was believed that Garuda provided largely defoliated Optera with much of its needed supply of nutrient.
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Frosts at any time in the growing season can partially or totally defoliate vines, but they typically remove the outermost leaf layers of a thick canopy.
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In the world that has "developed" since 1971, it has been fought in the barrios; it has defoliated land and driven peasants into even worse poverty.
Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging
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Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space.
Overboard
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Metrics such as use of "body counts" and scientific solutions such as using the herbicide Agent Orange to defoliate jungles in which communist guerrillas hid became trademarks of the conflict.
Vietnam-era Pentagon chief McNamara dead at 93
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Little leaf lindens will certainly be defoliated if Japanese beetles are in the area.
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The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon.
Peace Meals
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Place the freshly cut stems in a bottle of water and place in contact with the defoliated loosestrife plants.
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Napalm poured into the villages while weed killers defoliated the countryside.
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We need to defoliate some of the beans to help them ripen, not in the least the borlotti, who's beans sit in almost total darkness beneath a dense lagging of leaves.
Here comes the rain (again)
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Harris noted that defoliated plants could compensate for lost leaf area and increase in mass relative to non-defoliated plants.
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At 5 months, plants were partially defoliated or left intact.
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One thousand caterpillars eating leaves might completely defoliate a tree in two weeks, whereas that same number of aphids would hardly be noted.
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The chemical was sprayed in large quantities from aircraft in a bid to defoliate the landscape and deny cover to enemy forces.
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This means trees that defoliate have time to renew their sugar stores before future outbreaks.
Beware of late blight, and report damage
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Caterpillars are known to defoliate coneflower plants.
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Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space.
Overboard
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Somewhere out there beyond the elephant grass and the rice paddies and the hills that had been chemically defoliated or burned by napalm, Bedcheck Charlie was prowling through the darkness in black pajamas and a conical straw hat and sandals fashioned from the rubber strips he had sawed out of a truck tire.
The Glass Rainbow
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Dioxin was the ingredient in Agent Orange, used to defoliate Vietnam.
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As juveniles, the caterpillars are yellow and black and voracious; they can defoliate a snow-on-the-mountain
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Dioxin was the ingredient in Agent Orange, used to defoliate Vietnam.
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Another guy said it was too bad we weren't Americans'cause if we were, we could call in the B52s and defoliate it.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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Lam said that after the battle, the area was heavily bombed and then defoliated until there were no trees left.
Into the Story
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Silver maple and English walnut are examples of trees that can be damaged by sun scald in summer, but not during winter, when they are completely defoliated anyway.
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Across the river, the Viet Cong territory was a number of scalped hills: it had been defoliated.
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The basis of our experiments was that growth habit of defoliated plants would affect how they compensated for lost leaf area.
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Gypsy moths can attack bur oak; oak lacebug can turn the leaves off-color, causing long-term stress that heavily defoliates bur oaks in shelterbelt plantings, especially during dry weather.
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defoliate the trees with pesticides
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Unlike Japanese larch and white pine, defoliated bear oak seedlings showed very little response to partial defoliation.
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The third step in forcing dormancy is to wait three or four days after spraying and completely defoliate the plant by pulling off the leaves.
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Leonard "Marty" Kardes, 64, suffers disabling neurological problems due to exposure to Agent Orange, a chemical the U.S. military used to defoliate trees in Vietnamese jungles.
Heroes or Villains?
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The forest had already been defoliated and the oaks and aspens were expending precious energy sending out a second flush of leaves.
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They thrive in hot, dry weather and can defoliate a rose plant very quickly.
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Dioxin was the ingredient in Agent Orange, used to defoliate Vietnam.
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Tulip poplars simply defoliated in September and early October, when their foliage turned a drought-related yellow.
Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop
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A double oscillation is also a possibility, for example if the trees are defoliated by predators and then put out a second growth of leaves.
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They are a voracious pest, and, as I can testify from a couple of years ago, can defoliate an entire bush overnight if left to their own devices.
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Then 1975 sees Operation Condor, in which DEA agents, with the Mexican army, bomb, burn, and defoliate vast acreage of poppy cultivation in Sinaloa, displacing thousands of peasants and wrecking the economy.
Savages
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Others defended the choice: "'Defriend' makes me think of 'defoliate' and, well, I dunno, it sounds weird," one wrote.
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The teabaggers can go defoliate their scrotums, for all I care.
Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters.
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In severe cases, blackspot can severely defoliate a plant.
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I have to admit that it has come to my garden in numbers that will defoliate plants.
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Oak lacebug can turn the leaves off-color, causing long-term stress that heavily defoliates bur oaks in shelterbelt plantings, especially during dry weather.
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Cereal leaf beetle larvae may defoliate small grain foliage in the spring.
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Agent Orange defoliated the forests, Agent Blue killed crops, and a lot of both chemicals landed on people, including American troops.
Nick Mills: Disasters!
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It is naturally shrubby and over the winter the wiry framework will defoliate, but I will wait until March to shape it up with the shears.
Stunning salvias
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It would seem more appropriate to pull out of Afghanistan and make it abundantly clear that the next time an attack against the US is traceable to folks who were trained or in anyway supported by folks in Afghanistan, we will obliterate Afghanistan and defoliate its opium poppies.
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