DECIDUOUS in a Sentence

Learn DECIDUOUS 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.
Example sentences for DECIDUOUS, such as:Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.


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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DECIDUOUS
deciduous
 a.  (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
 a.  (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth
Classic Sentence:
1  Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Example Sentence:
1  The oak is a deciduous tree; in winter it looks quite bare.
2  One coniferous or deciduous tree grown in an urban setting over 10 years will sequester between 23.3 and 38 pounds of carbon per year.