How to Use forest floor in a Sentence

forest floor

noun

• In the wild, the pothos can grow along the forest floor and climb trees.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• Pulling it from the forest floor and from the trees does work.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
• At the base of the tree trunks, in patches across the forest floor, grass has grown.
  — Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
• The fire burned the top layer of the forest floor, known as the duff, Arnum said.
  — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
• Notes of black fruit, spice, forest floor, and black tea.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• The light changed on the forest floor, filtered through the high branches.
  — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• The trees get drenched and nourished; water drips to the forest floor.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• But at the very top of the ridge, a grove of pristine, old-growth hemlocks grow straight and healthy out of the forest floor.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
• The creek has cut a path through the soil, leaving 10 feet drops in some places from the forest floor to the creek bed below.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 19 Nov. 2021
• The rest stood upon the forest floor, thick with mulch, moss, and ants from a nearby colony.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• This mercury can then enter the forest floor when the leaves drop.
  — Jacqueline Gerson, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• There was no path, and the forest floor was overgrown with bracken and bush.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• Good fire creeps along the forest floor, clearing out fuel on the ground.
  — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2022
• That’s when the fire creeps across on the bottom of the forest floor, cleaning up some old leaf litter.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Its bones lay on the forest floor, the stony vestiges of an old mill town now engulfed by vines and brush.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Once free, the bird flew only about 50 feet before landing on the forest floor right next to the trail.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2022
• Every day, 12 hours of sunlight strikes their canopies and beams down through cracks to ferns on the forest floor.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
• Take a single square meter of forest floor and then sit back and just watch.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2022
• The first kind, a non-hooked tool, is typically a twig or a stem found on the forest floor.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2022
• The forest floor is alive with mushrooms, lichens, moss and fox droppings.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• That’s when snow melts and the sun shines through to the kindling-heavy forest floor without live tree leaves getting in the way.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Grass then was still an odd little weed, vying for a spot on the forest floor.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• This is followed by the thundering sound of the tree landing on the forest floor.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• Wrapped in ivy, but still in good condition, the stone rose from the fertile forest floor.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• After the injury, Judd lay on the forest floor for five hours and barely scraped through.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 12 Mar. 2022
• Deer, moose, black bears, beaver and fisher cats wander the forest floor.
  — David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• Grasses and ferns were taking root across the scar, painting the forest floor green.
  — Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
• Most survive predation to mate and then drop dead to the forest floor.
  — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
• For the plants closest to the forest floor, the light is diffuse, bouncing off surfaces around them.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Dec. 2021
• His blade of choice when harvesting and preparing the fruits of the forest floor?
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024