How To Use Verdant In A Sentence

GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks. Paradise Regained
The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards.
I observed his verdant chest hair because he had left the top two buttons of his shirt undone. Times, Sunday Times
The verdant hills and raised valleys are ideal for its commodes with ample erect telegraph poles to mark its new territorial space.

St. Mary's is not clustered in a village as churches often are but stands alone in the verdant countryside.
Verdant Valley is a very peaceful place, and I have a great-nephew here, Charles Chang Green, who will be company for you. THREE IN ONE
The first- floor bathroom is similarly spacious and light, and looks on to the verdant, cottagey back garden. Times, Sunday Times
The material is coarse and rough, the fabric verdant and winter green.
Take America's supposedly verdant ethanol subsidies.
The material is coarse and rough, the fabric verdant and winter green.
Here along the Georgia colonial coast, Gregg Allman has a comfortable house on a verdant, sweet-scented stretch of land, with classic cars and motorcycles in the garage and a tree-lined open road not far from his front door. Allman's Latest Blues Were a Source of Hope
Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.
The hill of Sanchi, surrounded by verdant forests with the river gurgling at its feet, resonant with the hymns and chants, must have been one of the most idyllic, spiritual spots.
While the word verdant came to English directly from Latin in the late 1500s, Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
Lush colors of dark purple with a mix of verdant green had formed a unique combination of shades on his body.
I imagine him gesturing like an exuberant host over a verdant landscape that stretches farther than the eye can see. Christianity Today
But don't forget the Northern forests, lakes, beautiful hills and verdant valleys.
In South Africa, the sandstone domes and verdant scrubland give kloofing, a ramped-up version of canyoneering, its own natural draws. Up and Down Canyons
This stunning, bold, verdant, grapey, white currant and herb-spiked white gets my vote. Times, Sunday Times
Trains enable tourists to sit back, relax and enjoy a smorgasbord of spectacular vistas of Taiwan's lush, verdant countryside, breathtaking mountains and tranquil coastlines.
It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves. Times, Sunday Times
Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake. Hobbes in the Himalayas
The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields. Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering?
Tiny houses were strung out along our route, framed in their verdant patch of coffee, banana and vegetables.
Here's one: It's late summer in New Zealand--that means fleecy lambs frolicking in green grass, warm starry nights in the mountains, close encounters with dolphins, verdant hobbit habitats perfect for hiking... Sick Of Winter? It's Summer In New Zealand...
When you are speaking with honest country people about the beauty of their fields, do not talk about "Flora spreading her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangling the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
So I went to the country for the weekend - that's the countryside, those large stretches of verdant open land between the towns and cities.
The day I saw it, at close quarters, it was perfect - dense, even, verdant grass, not a mark on it apart from the statutory white ones.
Upon reaching the unimaginably elegant and tranquil village, our visual senses were overwhelmed by verdant and lush hills, slender young bamboos, stout-aged pines, and two joyous streams.
As we go further south, the landscape becomes more verdant. Times, Sunday Times
In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven. The Village Watch-Tower
There is a verdant lawn in front of the dormitory.
As we leave Pisac and roll down the side of the gorge, the sun suddenly emerges and a brilliant rainbow lights up the verdant green Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Over the rolling, variegated hills, where virulent yellow rape seed mingles with brown arable land and verdant fruit farms, a grey, murky pallor is cast.
To me the word verdant brings images of lush vegetation. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
The Cumberlands were covered with rich undergrowth of the red and white rhododendron, the delicate laurel, the mountain ivy, the flameazalea, the spicewood, and the cane; while the white stars of the dogwood and the carmine blossoms of the red-bud, strewn across the verdant background of the forest, gleamed in the eager air of spring. The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
This perfect summer apéritif has a light, floral, grapey, hedgerow scent and verdant grassy palate. Times, Sunday Times
I saw part of Radcliffe's episode of "Inside the Actor's Studio," wherein he mentioned that verdurous -- which means "freshly green" or "verdant" (it's seldom used anymore) -- was his favorite word. John Lundberg: Harry Potter's Anonymous Poems
Instead of verdant green, I'm a glow-in-the-dark sickly pale, bearing only the beginnings of undeveloped fruit and struggling to survive.
The scenery is luxuriant because San Pancho is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains, covered in verdant foliage. Playa San Francisco: San Pancho for music and art
The landscape reminds me of unpopulated areas of France, rolling and verdant, alive with wild flowers, butterflies and birds, with unpolluted skies, unblemished vistas and not a whisper of a jet plane.
From verdant wallpaper murals to heaving citrine bodices, the imported hues of conquered cultures saturate.
Its cities are colourful and animated, its mountains dramatic and its hills verdant and tranquil.
We found a pastoral scene of verdant meadows and a scattered population of seminomadic Kyrgyz - Islamic subsistence farmers who come here in summer, tending yaks and cows.
A listener named Ross reports that he has observed the use of the word verdant as a sort of formal synonym to "green" or "environmentally responsible. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
He positioned the house on a hill looking across the valley to the verdant rise of Hog Mountain.
Primarily, the area extends into Afghanistan in one direction, into India in the other direction, and it's a verdant, sort of paradisaical land where the Buddha's image probably first evolved. Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman
The deciduous forest patch was at its best after the monsoon showers, the grass a verdant green.
Before my gaze was a misty, lush forest, falling away in steep slopes and verdant levels to a hidden valley below.
She's from Port Fairy, Australia, born along with the town in 1810 when the captain of the cutter Fairy took shelter in a verdant inlet made by a river and fell in love with the place.
His bright verdant eyes widened in fear and panic as our hands suddenly lost contact.
Situated on the borders of Wicklow and Kildare, Barretstown Castle commands a panoramic view over beautiful rolling hills and verdant fields.
Villagers cultivate maize, wheat and barley on verdant hillside terraces buttressed by stone escarpments.
Spot on, summery chenin blanc, made from 20-year-old vines, crammed with deliciously ripe, smoky, appley, yet verdant, fruit. Times, Sunday Times
At the exact moment that the bomb dropped the two were sitting on a hilltop of verdant grass, gazing out in amazement at the splendor that nature had created. The Law of Averages
Its edge sliced the crisp air, graceful as its owner that stepped and leapt, feral across the ground, through the low purple heathers and verdant mosses.
I looked around the lush African foliage, multicoloured flowers ablaze amidst the verdant Nairobi green.
After Kallar, the track ascends into the mountains hugging the verdant slopes.
For an especially breathtaking adventure, hike into Hanakapiai, one of the valleys past verdant, sleepy Hanalei.
But the Earth withal is verdant, sun-beshone; and the Son of Adam has his place on it, and his tasks and recompenses in it, to the close; -- as one remembers by and by, too. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
I have seen the Lago di Garda, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Lough – Lomond to them all, a preference which is certainly owing to the verdant islands that seem to float upon its surface, affording the most inchanting objects of repose to the excursive view. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves. Times, Sunday Times
Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
Yet its homeland is far from the gentle, verdant landscape of west Oxfordshire. Times, Sunday Times
Cholly was to play his toothsome, verdant secretary who was, quiet bluntly, very dim.
THE colour of mourning in Chapeco is a verdant green. Times, Sunday Times
Israel abode in Shittim -- a verdant meadow, so called from a grove of acacia trees which lined the eastern side of the Jordan. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves. Times, Sunday Times
She was in her natural form, grazing on the verdant patch of grass nearby; a forgotten mouthful of grass hung unchewed. Here There Are Monsters
My father was born in the port city of Valparaíso, verdant compared to the sun-baked terrain of the country's northern section, which boasts the world's driest desert.
It has a brilliant verdant colour and keeps for a day or two in the fridge. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps a verdant temperate country with beautiful wild flowers and cute native animals?
Ethiopia has a verdant landscape, rivers full of fish. Times, Sunday Times
When I awake hours later, mercifully Chongqing has disappeared and the Yangtze is flowing through attractive, verdant hills dotted with banana plantations and yellow terraced fields.
Yet its homeland is far from the gentle, verdant landscape of west Oxfordshire. Times, Sunday Times
THE bright orange stripe of an inflatable plastic boom cuts through the verdant north Alaskan tundra like an open wound. Times, Sunday Times
There's also the use of rocks, the inclusion of informal ponds, and a less verdant appearance than other styles.
Pines and cypresses of verdant green, cliffside waterfalls and springs are all clearly seen.
Castillo de in Punta, near the Havannah, on shelves of cavernous rocks, * covered with verdant sea-weeds and living polypi, we find enormous masses of madrepores and other lithophyte corals set in the texture of those shelves. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves. Times, Sunday Times
I watched them waft in the breeze before settling gracefully into the verdant green grass between my boots.
Glorious shots of the verdant Cuban countryside alternate with graceful, old Spanish cityscapes from Havana.
Looking into the mirror, he could hardly see the bright verdant eyes underneath his maze of zigzagging blonde hair.
All around Kitzbuhel, verdant slopes of dainty meadows decked with mountain daisies meet calm pine forests and towering alpine peaks.
This verdant valley at the meeting point of the Eastern and Western Ghats is bereft of any civic or infrastructure development.
Ethiopia has a verdant landscape, rivers full of fish. Times, Sunday Times
The plants were beautiful, organic masterpieces of life, but still the terrariums were poor mockeries of the verdant excesses outside.
Then Las Alpujarras - the name is thought to derive from the Arabic for ‘high green place’ - are lush and verdant.
For its entire existence in English verdant has meant the green of plants. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
She's from Port Fairy, Australia, born along with the town in 1810 when the captain of the cutter Fairy took shelter in a verdant inlet made by a river and fell in love with the place.
This pueblito in the midst of rolling hills and verdant flora 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border and ten miles northeast of Ensenada is part of Baja's renascent wine country.
The aptly named Gran Cenote is really several cenotes meandering along the verdant jungle floor and connected by wooden walkways.
Following lunch the shimmering afternoon sun warmed the shoulders, and accented the floral colours of the pleasure garden and the verdant fruitfulness of the walled organic garden.
THE bright orange stripe of an inflatable plastic boom cuts through the verdant north Alaskan tundra like an open wound. Times, Sunday Times
Before my gaze was a misty, lush forest, falling away in steep slopes and verdant levels to a hidden valley below.
Classy classical music in a verdant, pastoral setting - a nice alternative to the sweaty, heaving crowds of the Jazz Fest.
The first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway.
Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
The whole expedition was memorable, and I made myself a promise, that I would return to these verdant valleys soon again.
In the plaster couple the painterliness of facture is accentuated by applied highlights of color, while in the bronzes the verdant patina emphasizes the work's mass over its flickering surface.
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Did I realise that the little valleys of that region are so verdant because it rains every day?
Part the twigs and stems of an outwardly verdant yew or box hedge and you'll see that only the tips have green leaves. Times, Sunday Times
They say the Hellenes 'gathered host will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies, even to Ilium, the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus; where famed Cassandra, I am told, whene'er the god's resistless prophecies inspire her, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of verdant bay. Iphigenia at Aulis
Visitors today see a green and verdant forest on the slopes of Mount Tom and assume it has always been that way.
Behind, where the verdant valley dropped away, is a market square, and behind that, a verdant valley.
South Africa's best Sauvignon blancs offer top value compared to their French cousins, and this assertive, tangy, verdant 2003 with plenty of ripe, herby fruit on the finish is a fine example.
The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
I happened one day to pass along the lane I have described as skirting the garden of the manor-house, on my way homewards to my farm; and on plunging my eyes, as usual, into the verdant depths of the clipped yew-walks, visible through the iron-palisades, was struck by the contrast afforded to the scene I had just witnessed, not only by its aristocratic tranquillity, but by the grave and subdued deportment of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
The place is stuffed with verdant vistas, mountain views, bosky dells, bubbling brooks and limpid lakes.
In the plaster couple the painterliness of facture is accentuated by applied highlights of color, while in the bronzes the verdant patina emphasizes the work's mass over its flickering surface.
And now is the time of year for mouthwateringly light, aromatic white wines whose delicate verdant, floral flavours echo the first bosky scents and blooms of spring.
Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
When he emerges in an idealized landscape of verdant greens, the pristine surface of Luzu Lake mirrors the fleecy cumulus clouds and penetrating blue sky overhead.
Although it's the depth of winter, the loquat trees are still verdant and the leaves of the osmanthus trees are fresh and green.
It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies.
THE colour of mourning in Chapeco is a verdant green. Times, Sunday Times
From their conversation he gathered that the search for all three was centering in the desert beyond Verdant Valley. THREE IN ONE
And from our breakfast perch on the windowless hotel verandah high above a rainswept gorge almost overrun with verdant, luxuriant jungle dotted with palms, frangipani, hibiscus and pink orchids, the rain was positively uplifting.
The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. Villette
Greens are verdant and jade, while blues blend in various cobalt combinations.
Fred himself is adorable; he's got a great crinkly smile and a baldish head and is incredibly photogenic in his overalls, limping through verdant pastures.
At the foot of the Castillo de in Punta, near the Havannah, on shelves of cavernous rocks, * covered with verdant sea-weeds and living polypi, we find enormous masses of madrepores and other lithophyte corals set in the texture of those shelves. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The verdant landscapes and the warm, sunny color palette enhance the sense of the story as an idyll, a brief golden interval amid the dark uncertainty of war.
I imagine him gesturing like an exuberant host over a verdant landscape that stretches farther than the eye can see. Christianity Today
Is uncle what fluellen condemnation jesus wearing thick verdant mountain kingdoms. We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!
She picks that not for it's literary history, as I was expecting, but rather for verdant countryside dotted with sheep.
For two days, we climbed towards Akhamani, the Kallawayas' sacred mountain, its lower slopes verdant, carpeted with terraces and grazed by llamas, alpacas and sheep.
The verdant countryside of Maine seems to have touched the imagination of many decorators, for green is incorporated into the designs on a significant number of surviving pieces.
Situated by the northern bank of the river Aire, the verdant building (which actually looks more like a hedge than a henge) is an eye-popping addition to the area. Harsh Paul | Inhabitat
Over the rolling, variegated hills, where virulent yellow rape seed mingles with brown arable land and verdant fruit farms, a grey, murky pallor is cast.
The heat was beginning, to be oppressive, but as we got closer to the river, the fields became more and more verdant.
They say the Hellenes 'gathered host will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies, even to Ilium, the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus; where famed Cassandra, I am told, whene'er the god's resistless prophecies inspire her, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of verdant bay. Iphigenia at Aulis
I observed his verdant chest hair because he had left the top two buttons of his shirt undone. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere reached the land, bloomgrain ripening yellow, dun paperleaf, verdant pastures for herdlings, violet richen orchards, tall stands of shipwood. Genesis
Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
I was shown some pretty wild examples of barreled actions in canary yellow, light burgundy, and verdant green!
Elegantly poised ‘tween towering Mt Wellington and a commanding panorama of the Derwent viewed from verdant policies, Government House, Hobart, is a Victorian Gothic pile grand enough to grace any heathered Scottish brae.
We have seen a gentleman at the end of a round dance escort a lady to a seat, retaining his arm about her waist, but he was very verdant, or very ill-bred.
The area used to be a verdant paradise and one of the most biodiverse regions of the planet. Times, Sunday Times
It is produced in verdant countryside inland from the coast north of the city of Oporto which is known as the Costa Verde or Green Coast.
From where we stand, we see the vast, verdant Kumaon valley.
I observed his verdant chest hair because he had left the top two buttons of his shirt undone. Times, Sunday Times
But the Earth withal is verdant, sun-beshone; and the Son of Adam has his place on it, and his tasks and recompenses in it, to the close; ” as one remembers by and by, too. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Both are straight out of the pages of a racy period novel, with stunning views over a verdant valley where thoroughbreds roam free.
The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
Steaming upriver into the Columbia's great, verdant gorge, large sternwheelers brought passengers and profits to steamboat companies.
If George Smiley -- the unflappable mole-hunter from "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and other le Carré books -- were around, he'd deliver a wry rebuff to the author about how ennobling it must be to live in a world of such certainty, where Western intelligence is reliably lupine and the Muslim world a verdant pasture of 95% innocent lambs. Suspicious Minds
For this verdant subterranean hideaway is arguably London's most stylish and comfortable place in which to enjoy a cigar. Dusting Off the Stogie's Stodgy Image
I never shall forget his delight as we tranquilly glided to the side of the landing-place, nor his violent indignation when stepping out of the boat in a pair of jockey boots, and selecting, what appeared to his ruralized vision, a _verdant_ spot; his feet slid from under him, and he got a fall unmodified in its disagreeable results by the excitement of the sport so prevalent in his native country. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
Lenoir — rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment — all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great combat was to be decided. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
As we go further south, the landscape becomes more verdant. Times, Sunday Times
Did I realise that the little valleys of that region are so verdant because it rains every day?
Walking downhill to Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, Rustaveli Prospekt (named for Shota Rustaveli, a twelfth-century Georgian poet), I saw flower stalls, dark-haired women in black dresses, and verdant hills in the distance; the countryside is always close by, because of Tbilisi's medieval compactness. Where Europe Vanishes
The idea that fresh foliage as an analogy to lack of sophistication was applied by the early 1800s to the word verdant as well and then in 1853 an author named Edward Bradley, writing under the pen name Cuthbert Bede used both words to name the chief character in his book An Oxford Freshman. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
Whatever happened to the colourful and verdant front gardens of old?
It has a brilliant verdant colour and keeps for a day or two in the fridge. Times, Sunday Times
And then, when I got there, still without seeing the meadow lark, there was a verdant patch of wild valerian basking in the sun and another corner with another patch of sunlight a little further on.
The dark compactness of the jungle, the steadfast but disorderly array of the forest, the blotches of verdant grass, the fringe of yellow-flowered hibiscus and the sapful native cabbage, give way in turn to the greys and yellows of the sand in alternate bands. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
The first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway.
A bay on the southern side of Loch Tay presented a beautiful beach of sparkling sand, on which the boats might land with ease, and a dry meadow, covered with turf, verdant considering the season, behind and around which rose high banks, fringed with copsewood, and displaying the lavish preparations which had been made for the entertainment. The Fair Maid of Perth
I looked around the lush African foliage, multicoloured flowers ablaze amidst the verdant Nairobi green.
The victim, 17, was walking with a friend to a shop in Verdant Lane, Catford, when he was attacked by a gang of youths armed with the wood chopper and a wheel brace, the Old Bailey heard on March 16.
At that moment, if one polled the Promenaders, they would surely vote to restore the entire country to rough pasture and verdant meadows.
It is not just youngsters who are flocking to this charming, antique building in a verdant setting.
Children are playing on the verdant lawn.
Somewhere in the South Pacific, a plane en route from Sydney to the U.S. crash-lands on a verdant deserted island.
It's a surprisingly verdant mountain - spared by the last glaciation - where rhododendrons, gentians and rare orchids bloom.
It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves. Times, Sunday Times
At length, after various twistings and turnings in that deep and devious lane; after scaring one or two farmers, and riding over a brood or two of ducks; dipping into the verdant valley of West End, and ascending another hill, Turpin burst upon the gorsy, sandy, and beautiful heath of Rookwood
I, on the other hand, discovered the challenge of carrying a raging toddler over my shoulder, up a verdant hill, in high heels, only to watch him run right back down.
North of Wellington, lushly tucked into the verdant Hutt River valley, lies Upper Hutt, population 36, 660, town of my youth.
He wanted a readymade country house with all the usual appurtenances, including an art collection, beautiful garden and verdant park. Times, Sunday Times

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