leafy

How To Use leafy In A Sentence

• We sat in the leafy, overgrown garden, where wild herbs and flowers spiced the air and the mismatched tables were topped with salvaged mosaic tiles. Smithsonian Mag
• They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
• And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
• The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
• Green, leafy vegetables are especially high in minerals and fiber, so should be eaten often.
• In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Include lots of green leafy vegetables and sweet juicy fruits.
• The leafy suburbs and rural areas also have their fill of young people using drugs. Taking Drugs Seriously
• Gai laan, Chinese broccoli, has delicious tender stems and choi sum is a leafy veg rather like pak choi. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Woodlands are the butcherbird's natural habitat, but like many similar species they have adapted well to urbanisation and can be found in leafy suburbs.