How to Use forest in a Sentence

forest

1 of 2 noun

• Fires destroyed acres of forest.
• Now some 150 of them roam free on the paths and in the forest.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, lies something buried.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Rodger’s son, Anson, 19, who works on the farm, was setting up the pigs in the oak forest.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• There had been a forest fire somewhere on the mainland, whipped up by the wind.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The words in our prompts are recognized by trees across the forest.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Outside the window, the verdant green of their forest village gave way to the flat gray of the cityscape.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• For the first challenge, the guys needed to find something in the forest for Charity and the scouts to eat.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
• Standing at the forest line, like a mirage, were two fawns.
  — Kate Brody, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• But, of course, Price and Heath didn’t simply want to use the existing forest.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Luc’s bent-toed geckos were found at night on karst limestone cliffs and in the trees and vines of a nearby forest, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• No one would go spend their holidays in a burned forest.
  — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• For over 86 million years prior to that moment, birds with teeth thrived among the forests, floodplains and oceans of the Mesozoic world.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Cleveland may be home to a lot of tall trees, but the city does not have a dense forest population.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• Insider tips on the best of our beaches, trails, parks, deserts, forests and mountains.
  — Kim Janssen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Park district staff have reached out to the forest preserve about maintaining the small part of the trail in the Fairlane Farms Park area, Shutes said.
  — Giles Bruce, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• On the edge of the forest, deep inside the campus of the Middleburg, Va., boarding school, students walked through iron gates.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Rainwater trickles off the roof and softly down the wood like a light shower in a rain forest, Rice said.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
• Belém do Pará is a northern Brazilian city located in the fringes of the Amazon forest.
  — Mia Alberti, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Hundreds of rivers snake across the country, the eighth-most populous in the world, buttressed in the south by the planet’s largest mangrove forest.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• Experts found the frogs in two forest environments, both with clay and white-sand soil.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• Fires in Canada this summer have burned more than 50 thousand square miles of forest.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• The black-and-white drama follows the plight of refugees stranded in the swampy forest land that makes up the Polish-Belarusian border.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• Developers cut down the forests and built around its lakes as the city of about 4 million exploded to house more than three times that.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, the Payne family seeks a wild and free existence.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• Some dinosaurs needed long necks to reach high in the trees, loading their enormous guts with enough roughage to supply a small forest.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• In the forests that blanket Boulder County’s foothills, residents are accustomed to smoke in the air.
  — Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 12 May 2023
• Africa contributes the least to greenhouse gas emissions, but its vast natural resources, such as forests, are crucial in the fight against climate change.
  — Taiwo Adebayo, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2024
• Up front is a new grille pattern that senior design director Taisuke Nakamura says was inspired by the towering bamboo forests that dwarfed him during his childhood in Kyoto.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024

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forest

2 of 2 verb

• So, too, will forest fires like the ones this summer that struck Siberia.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• This fall, steal a moment to forest bathe or lose yourself in a wide open space far from the madding crowd.
  — Mary Carol Garrity, kansascity, 1 Oct. 2017
• That has lowered the rate that forests soak up carbon dioxide and increased the risk of wildfires, which have added to emissions.
  — Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Over the years there have been tensions between the Gujjars and Hindus in the region over land use and the right to forest resources.
  — Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
• Taiga forest north of the Mongolian border, is a mile deep in some places and believed to be 25 million years old.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• But this would mean foresting an area with a size somewhere between that of India and Canada.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The porch at Las Cruces opens to a wide expanse of mountains alternately cleared and forested.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• Four years later, only half the project areas were forested.
  — Will Meyer, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
• The same could be said of the careful management that goes into keeping Michigan’s state forests healthy and abundant.
  — Michigan Department Of Natural Resources, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2018
• He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on 13 counts of arson to forest land.
  — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Before the impact, the area was richly forested and home to many species of dinosaur, as well as small mammals that were around the size of a porcupine.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
• The building’s roof was forested with aerials and satellite dishes.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• These three trails have varied scenery from urban to forest to rural areas.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2022
• The viper was transported to a cage in a lab that resembled the semi-arid land of scrub and forest the snakes normally inhabit.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• And that setting shifts—from city to forest to small town, flooded hotels to overgrown museums.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• In recent years forest fires in Alaska have broken records, burning more acreage, more intensely and for longer.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• Botanical garden bathing is close enough to forest bathing that only sticklers would find fault.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
• As a part of her reporting for Trafficked, Mariana traveled to forest in Thailand to join a team of rangers there patrolling the area for poachers.
  — National Geographic, 1 Dec. 2020
• The river side is forested with cottonwoods, black walnut, willow, valley oak and sycamore trees.
  — Al Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
• The Mbe Mountains forest in southern Nigeria, where these images were captured, is home to about a third of the total population.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2020
• The Loon Lake area is forested with Douglas fir, western hemlock and red cedar; there’s plenty of hiking, swimming, boating and fishing.
  — Alison Darosa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2018
• The early humans living in these caves would have forested for berries and hunted smaller animals like monkeys and small deer.
  — Nick Whigham, Fox News, 10 May 2018
• Portugal, like most southern European countries, is prone to forest fires in the dry summer months.
  — Armando Franca, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
• Buhl said impacts to forest health are taking out roughly as many trees as wildfires, which are also now more likely and more intense by climate change.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
• In 1995, when Trader first came to the monument as an intern, Bandelier was forested with great stands of ponderosa pines and other conifers that had stood for millennia.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 9 May 2018
• One can now forest bathe everywhere from Lapland to Central Park.
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• In addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of marshland that were drained or diked off, the researchers discovered former wetlands that now are forested that were unknown to anybody.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The former refers to bringing trees back to areas that were previously forested, whether that’s through planting trees or allowing the woodlands to regrow on their own.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 July 2019
• Nearly all of the land is forested, except for a small portion farmed by the Grimmel family, according to the Stevensons’ application.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 25 June 2018
• The researchers predict that as these new megafires become more common, there will increasingly be more threats to forest wildlife and less and less biodiversity.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2019

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