Example sentences for: leaf

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

  • He was hopinga small leaf would stick to the window, somethingred, with a pear to match, a Bartlett; pearsand apples made him sleep.

  • It’s difficult to miss, in this proud cradle of New France, that the town is borrowing a leaf from the book of the modern French republic by calling its provincial parliament the Assemblée Nationale.

  • The falling leaf inaugurates The reign of her confusion;The pounding wave reverberates The dirge of her illusion;And home, where passion lived and died,Becomes a place where she can hide,While all the town and harbor side Vibrate with her seclusion.

  • In order to estimate fungal abundance and richness of different habitats, we sampled fungi from the air and the leaf surfaces of the vegetation.

  • Aristolochia rugosa and Aristolochia trilobata are recorded in a list of plants used worldwide and in the West Indies, Venezuela, South and Central America against snakebites and scorpion stings [ 51 52 24 43 40 53 ] . Caribs in Guatemala use Aristolochia trilobata root and tuber decoctions for stomach pains and use leaf tinctures for diarrhoea [ 55 ] . Aristolochic acid inhibits inflammation induced by immune complexes, and nonimmunological agents (carrageenan or croton oil) [ 56 ] . Aristolochic acid inhibits the activity of snake venom phospholipase (PLA 2 ) by forming a 1:1 complex with the enzyme [ 56 40 38 ] . Since phospholipase enzymes play a significant part in the cascade leading to the inflammatory and pain response, their inhibition could lead to relief of problems from scorpion envenomation [ 11 ] .


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