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 sun breaks through the treeline and dapples the forest floor.
  — Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The fire burned the top layer of the forest floor, known as the duff, Arnum said.
  — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
• Fires on the forest floor cause the trees’ cones to dry out and release seeds.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
• 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
• In old-growth redwoods, a fire will scour the forest floor, but the big trees live on.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• The trees get drenched and nourished; water drips to the forest floor.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• With the loss of trees, more sunlight reaches the forest floor.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• And to tie it all with a bow, the last shot of the scene is poor Fergus’s hand lying on the forest floor.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2017
• Roads shut down, the forest floor comes alive, and tens of millions of red crabs take over.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 July 2024
• There’s a small lump, rising no more than a foot or two from the forest floor.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
• 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 felling of trees and the burning of stumps in the Adirondacks had reduced the acidity of the forest floor.
  — Rupert Darwall, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• For months after the fires died down, the forest floor smouldered.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Red and black fruits were joined by forest floor and damp earth notes in this wine, aged 15 months in barrels.
  — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• On the forest floor 99 million years ago, a baby snake got trapped in a blob of sap that fell from a tree.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2018
• 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
• Privet grown in the woods does not allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Aromas of smoke, walnuts, forest floor and mocha, as well as a hit of German chocolate cake in this Tuscan wine with 13.5% alcohol.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
• Researchers have analyzed pollen preserved in the sediments in the forest floor, revealing that the ecosystem has stood for at least 8,300 years.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024