How To Use Leafless In A Sentence
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The plantations were always weird at this hour of eve — more spectral far than in the leafless season, when there were fewer masses and more minute lineality.
The Woodlanders
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I like the way trees move in the wind, the sound their branches make as they clack together in the leafless winter.
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The bushes were leafless and budless, the summer gone, the spring not worth hoping for, because it also would go: spring after spring came -- for nothing but to go again!
Thomas Wingfold, Curate
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Tall, leafless trees outlined the pathway, their silhouettes shockingly dark against the snow.
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He had planted slim switches of one kind after another and the wind had blown each to leaflessness, until now there stood a slim row of cottonwoods that he had tried as a last resort, but the same thing would happen to them, perhaps.
The Way of the Wind
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Alas! poor covert now in their naked leaflessness for the stricken deer!
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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The wisteria covered pergola was leafless and bloomless.
A Place To Dream « Fairegarden
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To the left, covering the mountain-side, were masses of evergreen kalmia, and above them tall and leafless trees in whose branches the wind made a grating sound.
The Long Roll
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The small trees that grew about it shivered in their leaflessness; the rank grass was wan under the failing day; most of the stones leaned this way or that, emblems of neglect (they were very white at the top, and darkened downwards till the damp soil made them black), and certain cats and dogs were prowling or sporting among the graves.
The Nether World
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Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains.
The Plains of Passage
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The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their back-ground, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
Nature
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When it did, light splashed through larch and ash, sliding across tree trunks and falling into tangles of dark, leafless brash.
Country Diary: Wenlock Edge
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A ramage of trees, which, if leafless now, was at least dense enough to provide an effective lattice.
Scaramouche
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Most of the trees are leafless with just the golden pendulous flowers, while some have a mixture of gold blossoms and lovely tender green leaves tinged with a rich copper colour.
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If trellising just isn't in the picture for your garden, I would recommend growing a semi-leafless pea variety like Novella II.
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All adown the desert aisles of the leafless woods the light lay with a flocculent glister like snow, so enhanced was its whiteness in the rare air and the blackness of the forest shadows -- spare, clearly drawn, all filar and fine like the intricacies of a delicate line engraving.
The Frontiersmen
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Hornbeam loses its leaves earlier and has a leafless period before it greens up again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thin leafless trees were all bending away from the shore, and the wind went sighing, hissing, and almost wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs.
The Marquis of Lossie
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Branches numerous, flexuous, with small branchlets or joints springing from the ends in clusters, smooth, round, the thickness of whipcord, leafless, with numerous brown, dot-like marks scattered over the surface; under a lens these dots are seen to be tufts of very fine hairs.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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Here, the stark, leafless trees are showing their first spring life, thrusting forth buds of triumphant red.
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But while most of the foliage is gaining in brilliancy, bare limbs are already seen here and there; the Virginia creepers are all but leafless, so are the black walnuts; and the balm of Gilead poplar is losing its large leaves.
Rural Hours
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The leafless trees in the garden looked gaunt and somehow lonely.
THY BROTHER DEATH
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The twigs are leafless and flowerless; the shape of the background canvas is not ‘golden’.
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Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey.
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He took up his abode in his royal apartments in the Castle; and the next day, as he paused in his Sunday walk round the exterior, he looked with no especial anxiety Londonwards, but rejoiced once more in the view of the Thames flowing by Eton, and the far expanse of lull and valley, villages and fair houses, noble even in its wintry leaflessness and the dull gloom of the December air.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Despite snow on the ground, leafless trees and the distinct absence of birdsong one can sense a seasonal change.
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Combine roses with earlier or later flowering plants, and with evergreens to distract attention from their leafless stems in winter.
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The manic warbler was back in force atop the still leafless weeping cherry, with a flitter of potential girlfriends darting among the bamboo still bent over from the recent snow.
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Cut leafless stems of rose and abelia into 10-inch lengths and set them directly in the propagation bed or container.
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It was perhaps a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the shivering, hungry ghosts just like the cattle from the bare fields and leafless woods into the warm cottages.
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An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation.
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We Hepburns are extinct as the dodoes now," he said, and he rambled on with the names of many other creatures which had become fruitless, leafless twigs on the tree of evolution.
Galapagos
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Walter had named them long ago; and last November, when he had walked with her and Miss Oliver in the Valley, he had said, looking at the leafless Lady, with a young silver moon hanging over her, "A white birch is a beautiful Pagan maiden who has never lost the Eden secret of being naked and unashamed.
Rilla of Ingleside
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Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey.
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Following two expert Waliangulu trackers, we dashed through thick bush to keep the elephant's red, dust covered back in sight as it seemed to float above the gray, leafless Comiphora bush.
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The wharf was full, every mooring place taken, and the masts of all the ships formed a kind of leafless forest, stripped of the sails that had carried them all this way.
Tran Siberian
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With the sun peaking through the leafless branches, we had our midday meal and shared our morning stories.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
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On a leafless European tree, not more than ten yards from my window, are sitting upwards of thirty lorikeets.
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Higher up the moor, ferns of ampler size occur, and what seems to be rushes, which bear atop conglobate panicles on their smooth leafless stems; but at its lower edge little else appears than the higher Acrogens, -- ferns and their allies.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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The vista beyond was dotted with leafless trees and throngs of firs and pine.
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It was a small square of unmown lawn, with a gnarled, nearly leafless tree in the middle.
LOST CHILDREN
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The flowers are inconspicuous, usually white or cream and pedunculate, ascending or erect, corymbose cymes, collected into a terminal leafless panicle, or the lower peduncles arising from the axis of reduced leaves.
Chapter 17
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the leafless branches etched against the sky
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Leafless by early November, the pencil-thin twigs are a uniform fiery red, rising as high as seven feet.
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There are tables and chairs for the notional interiors; the stark silhouettes of leafless trees are picked out against white walls; at one end some wooden frames denote an old, abandoned silver mine.
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Orange hawkweed is the only species with orange flowers and a typically leafless stem.
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The yellow Spring sun, like liquid honey, fell in benediction on the leafless trees, big with buds, and on the tawny mat of grass through which the blue noses of anemones were sticking.
Purple Springs
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There was everything to repel -- the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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From a leafless high branch of a dead tree the huddled heap of a kite regarded them thoughtfully.
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Look at the anatomy of any tree, as it is disclosed to us in its wintry leaflessness, a beautiful composition of line rather than of form (see illustration, p. 143 [f081b]).
Line and Form (1900)
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Dawn to dusk, each hour, Patricio would guide twenty pilgrims to the cave while the others queued up, seeking shade under every leafless cactus and scrubby tree near the chain.
The Calling
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The name bulrush is more correctly applied to _Scirpus lacustris_, a member of a different family (Cyperaceae), a common plant in wet places, with tall spongy, usually leafless stems, bearing a tuft of many-flowered spikelets.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Under a leafless mulberry tree, we sat on a turfed bench sharing a mug of steaming chocolate with snow cream.
Exit the Actress
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One brown knoll alone breaks the waste, and on it a few leafless wind-clipt oaks stretch their moss-grown arms, like giant hairy spiders, above a desolate pool which crisps and shivers in the biting breeze, while from beside its brink rises a mournful cry, and sweeps down, faint and fitful, amid the howling of the wind.
Westward Ho!
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a harvest of new plants in the garden; for the rose-trees, emaciated with leaflessness, had each a shadow that twisted on the earth like ground-ivy or climbed the wall like a creeper.
The Judge
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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The trees were bare and leafless, but the snow made them a sight for sore eyes.
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Long-backed, thin, ‘lank as a leafless elm,’ a New England coach driver might look as though a high wind would blow him away, yet he would wear nankeens and low shoes in winter weather, and was not fragile but lusty.
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Australis (from New Zealand), a most quaint plant, with leaves so depauperated that it is apparently leafless, and hardy in the South of
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Combine roses with earlier or later flowering plants, and with evergreens to distract attention from their leafless stems in winter.
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An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation.
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Of winter afternoons he would stare through the leaded window-panes at the gaunt, leafless trees, on whose summits swayed the cawing rooks, until servitude seemed intolerable, and he prayed for the voice of the bearward that summoned him to Southwark.
A Book of Scoundrels
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The leafless garden with its pinched grass and dirty London brick walls: would he see spring arrive there?
Fiction
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The trees, covered in the thick hoar frost of morning, reached their leafless branches up, like hands stretching towards the heavens.
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For hours we thus toiled up pathways seemingly fitter for goats than men, where leafless trees were bending destitute of life and helpless towards the valley, as the keen wind went sighing, moaning, wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs.
Across China on Foot
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Further away, a doe lurks behind the finely striated trunk of a now leafless Blue Oak, one of several prized specimens that induced us to select this particular site for our home.
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Trees, which in the south stand bare during the winter months, have here but a short period of leaflessness.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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She then proceeded to relaxedly get her things together for the next few sessions, seeing no reason to rush, occasionally glancing out the window to the windblown and almost leafless November yards below.
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Cut leafless stems of rose, abelia, bridal wreath, privet and other plants into 8-to - 10-inch lengths and set them directly in the propagation bed or container.
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Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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Speculation would introduce the idea that lignification relates to a hormone influence proceeding from the leaves of a tree and that the leafless scion does not send forth hormones for stimulating the cells of the scion to the point of furnishing enzymes for wood building.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
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Individual blades of grass threw long shadows on the leafless driveway.
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We stopped in a depressing little memorial garden of leafless rosebushes with a monument for the dead of the two world wars and sat there in the drizzle.
Henry’s Demons
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After the silence and the leaflessness, to have the birds back once more and to feel them busy at the nest-building; how glad to give them the moss and fibres and the crutch of the boughs to build in!
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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The plantations were always weird at this hour of eve -- more spectral far than in the leafless season, when there were fewer masses and more minute lineality.
The Woodlanders
