leafed

How To Use leafed In A Sentence

• Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
• I sat down on the stairs, petted Cleo, leafed through my stack of mail piled in a mound on the bottom stair.
• Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders. Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
• He dumped the pig of metal on the second desk, where Aletha sat with her perpetual loose-leafed volumes before her. Sand Doom
• Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
• Outside my door was a green leafed bush, which apparently had not gone bald in the wintertime.
• There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait.
• Of the olive-tree two varieties are particularly distinguished: the long-leafed, which is cultivated in the south of France and in Italy; and the broad-leafed in Spain, which has its fruit much longer than that of the former kind. The Illustrated London Reading Book
• True, there are certain races where even a blue-leafed hosta plant would be able to discern the superiority of a Joe Sestak to an avaricious toad like Pat Toomey. Jerry and Joe Long: Can Scum Save Us From Maniacs?
• Flat-leafed parsley looks like coriander but can easily be distinguished by smell.