AUTUMN in a Sentence

Learn AUTUMN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
152 example sentences for AUTUMN, such as:
1. The leaves turn brown in autumn.
2. The leaves turn crimson in autumn.
3. The autumn dragged on monotonously.
4. The autumn days declined to winter.
5. Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of AUTUMN
autumn
 n.  the season when the leaves fall from the trees
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  He could feel his own daughters snickering behind his back as they remembered in what condition he had come home from the Wilkeses' last barbecue the autumn before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  There was the far-off yelping of possum dogs in the dark swamp under cool autumn moons and the smell of eggnog bowls, wreathed with holly at Christmas time and smiles on black and white faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  Atlanta was only twenty miles away but the train crawled interminably through the wet early autumn afternoon, stopping at every bypath for passengers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
6  A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
8  I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  On the present occasion, however, a variety of reasons had combined to bring her to town; and foremost among them was the fact that she had fewer invitations than usual for the autumn.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10  The autumn dragged on monotonously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
11  There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting and sanitation, Lily had leisure to wander, in the bright autumn air, along the tree-fringed bay to which the land declined.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
12  The autumn days declined to winter.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
13  Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres to a field, prickly and gray near-by but in the blurred distance like tawny velvet stretched over dipping hillocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  She was calling on Miles and Bea, early in autumn.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  For that autumn she knew that a baby was coming, that at last life promised to be interesting in the peril of the great change.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  American people use "fall" to mean autumn.
2  The painting glowed with beautiful autumn tints.
3  We like to travel in the autumn when there are fewer tourists.
4  Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
5  The leaves turn brown in autumn.
6  The leaves turn crimson in autumn.
7  The leaves begin to fall when autumn comes.
8  As autumn draws near, leaves begin to fall from the trees.
9  We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.
10  The book is scheduled for publication in the autumn.
11  The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this autumn cannot be ruled out.
12  At the first cold of autumn, many insects go into hibernation.
13  You are invited to view our autumn collection.
14  The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn.
15  The Government produced in the autumn statement a graph of consumer confidence.