Example sentences for: olive

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

  • Laurel wreaths, symbolizing victory, and olive branches symbolizing peace, also adorn the rug's border along with acanthus leaves.

  • He avers that he respects olive trees and aspires to preserve as many as possible but that there's no stopping, or even slowing, technological advancement, market integration, or American cultural hegemony.

  • Edibles: Wonderful foods from the Greek countryside include honey, olives and olive oil, and nuts such as almonds and hazelnuts.

  • And more than anywhere else in the country, Tuscany and neighboring land-locked Umbria present the ideal green Italian landscape, dotted with stalwart hilltop towns, where cypress-tree sentinels watch over groves of twisted olive groves and vineyards blanket the gentle rolling hills.

  • A short walk along a marked path through the fields takes you to a group of drystone houses with two temples and circular ramparts in a lovely setting of eucalyptus and olive trees.


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