Example sentences for: elm

How can you use “elm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One would expect that a certain amount of common sense be exercised: Palm Drive and Bougainvillea Boulevard would be as out of place in Massachusetts as Yucca Lane; with the devastation wrought by Dutch elm disease, one might consider renaming all the streets in America named Elm Street to describe a hardier species.

  • Horror director Wes Craven ( Scream , A Nightmare on Elm Street ) branches out and tackles the true story of Roberta Guaspari, an East Harlem violin teacher.

  • From in-land Andratx, a dead-end road leads to the coast at Sant Elm, a former fishing village that doesn’t try too hard to be a resort.

  • Prudie--who did not attend divinity school, but the school of hard knocks--would like to point out that most people who are not candidates for Dutch elm disease would figure out that there might, indeed, have been a little experimentation of the sexual sort and quit already with the interrogation.

  • Why do so many roads end in Saint --Elm St., Main St.?


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