How to Use deciduous in a Sentence

deciduous

adjective

• In the Arizona high country or along riparian areas, cottonwood, ash, aspen and other deciduous trees grow and, come fall, drop their leaves.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
• Wood ferns (deciduous, so bare five months of the year).
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 16 May 2017
• This wood comes from deciduous trees (the kind that drop their leaves each year).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2021
• The woods are the dense, deciduous, swampy kind, the kind in which rotting leaves mingle with the earth and the ground gives soft way beneath the boy’s feet.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• The best time to plant new deciduous fruit trees is in late winter.
  — Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• And on the other side of the path is a deciduous forest of beeches.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• The taiga forest trailed the ice, and then the deciduous trees moved in during this age of climate change.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• This week in the garden The leaves are falling from deciduous trees in the landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Find advice on when and how to prune many species of deciduous shrubs at mortonarb.org/pruning-deciduous-shrubs.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2022
• For ease of harvest, keep your deciduous fruit trees at a height of eight feet.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
• Set against the greens of the ponderosa pines, an array of deciduous trees splash color all along the route.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
• Snow load on deciduous shrubs and trees may cause limbs and branches to break.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2017
• The old-growth deciduous forests can make a person feel young the same way city skyscrapers can make one feel small.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• When the towering canopy of white pine blew down, what was left were the seedlings and saplings of deciduous hardwood trees.
  — Stephen Long, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2017
• Winter, when deciduous plants are bare and dormant, is a fine time to trim and shape your shrubs.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2021
• Summer hubbub is over, the powder’s yet to fly, and the deciduous trees are ablaze.
  — Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2019
• That's what signals our deciduous trees to drop their leaves in fall.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• This is a deciduous shrub with bright coral red stems in winter.
  — OregonLive.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• One theory is that the kind of deciduous forests that cicadas like to drink sap from are common in the East, rather than the West.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• Both of these cypresses are deciduous and drop all of their leaves in the winter.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• But this is part of the problem with deciduous fruit trees; the fruit ripens during a period of a few weeks.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
• So does fall, when the deciduous splendor of the park unveils in washes of gold, red, and umber.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• From the busy parking lot, a network of short trails wind through the park, running through a large, grassy meadow and deciduous forests to the banks of the Sandy River.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
• That was the case in late September, when a heavy snowfall stressed deciduous trees that had not yet lost their leaves and couldn’t bear the weight, said Post.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
• By month’s end, strip leaves off pears, plums, and other deciduous fruit trees.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• The third reason people plant in the fall is because deciduous trees drop leaves then.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Tree 'Shan Hu Tai': This deciduous shrub, reaching 3 to 5 feet tall, can grow as a hedge and features coral pink blooms.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 May 2024
• In the fall, nearby June Lake in the Eastern Sierra has deciduous trees awash in golds, oranges and reds.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• The Congaree and Wateree Rivers flow through the park, helping to sustain one of the highest deciduous tree canopies in the world.
  — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
• Winding scenic roads will take you to wilderness areas and state parks filled with deep forests of deciduous trees and campgrounds too—all perfect places for leaf peeping.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024