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How To Use ferny In A Sentence

• This is a crab apple of incredible delicacy, with amber fruits no larger than currants and delicate ferny foliage that turns buttery yellow when the chill of the season takes a hold. Conkers, crab apples, quince and elder: raiding autumn's larder
• Come September, attractive ferny foliage is a backdrop to yellow, lemon-peel flowers, which mix with fascinating tousled seed heads as the flowers drop.
• Leisurely glances at the mass of granite from which the crystal shone showed that from the ferny ledge it would be beyond reach, and that unless care was exercised in the dislodgment it might fall among a confusion of boulders far below and be lost for ever. Tropic Days
• As you can see by clicking on the above photo, the moss itself is already diverse, but the ferny leaves of the leptinella, black and green leaf varieties were both planted, add another dimension to the area we call the wildflower garden. Fairies Part Three « Fairegarden
• the ferny shadows of locust leaves
• Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
• This great little plant is a ferny-leaved version of cilantro. 2009 May « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
• Hilltop pastures and crops of potatoes contrasted with the gloominess of ferny valleys, where the white bells of leek gave off whiffs of onion which dominated the perfume of bluebells. Country diary: Cornwall
• Panurge, the day thereafter, caused pierce his right ear after the Jewish fashion, and thereto clasped a little gold ring, of a ferny-like kind of workmanship, in the beazil or collet whereof was set and enchased a flea; and, to the end you may be rid of all doubts, you are to know that the flea was black. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Use the ferny leaves on a sandwich in place of lettuce, mix them with other salad greens, steep them in white-wine vinegar, or bruise them and add them to a wine spritzer.