Example sentences for: vines

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

  • Sugar cane had taken a hefty toll on the Madeiran soil; exhausted plantations were supplanted by less-demanding grape vines.

  • By the end of that century farmers had developed a technique of digging trenches that enabled them to reach the fertile layer of earth found under the cinders, where they planted the vines that were then covered with the extracted ashes.

  • Royal Chitwan National Park is 932 sq km (358 sq miles) of magnificent first-growth trees — the tall hardwood sal, the kapok “silk-cotton” tree, and the flame-of- the-forest with their spectacular crimson February flowers, plus ferns, bamboo, and huge vines that choke trees to death like pythons.

  • But when the time comes for them to die, both do themselves in accidentally while fighting Tarzan: The cheetah falls atop a spearhead that Tarzan happens to be holding, and the Englishman inadvertently hangs himself on jungle vines.

  • Each of the 15,000 trees, shrubs, and vines, is labeled clearly with its common and scientific name.


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