How to Use forest floor in a Sentence

forest floor

noun

• With the loss of trees, more sunlight reaches the forest floor.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• Once upon a time, flames hugged the forest floor, keeping it tidy.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 5 May 2018
• Privet grown in the woods does not allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The plant thrives on the rocky forest floor, sprouting from pockets where rain collects.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 14 Mar. 2018
• This big wine tastes of berries, damp earth, forest floor, cigar box, pine needles and bright acidity.
  — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Besides the obvious woody roots, many fine root are hidden in the duff of the forest floor.
  — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
• Only the police blood-test results and the empty bottle on the forest floor told the tale.
  — Melissa Fay Greene, The Cut, 24 June 2018
• What used to be spruce trees and an insulating carpet of forest floor is now a layer of warm asphalt.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2018
• To her surprise, the skinny, wormy creature scrunched up the lower half of its body, then leapt onto the forest floor.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• When hundreds of birds flew down from the tree canopy to the mineral-rich forest floor, Gertsman was ready.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
• In the past, patches of snow would usually still dot the green grasses on the forest floor well into June.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 30 Apr. 2018
• Floral top note, high-altitude, but at the same time there’s the basso-continuo note of the forest floor.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Soils can hold up to twice as much carbon as the trees above, depending on the type of forest and amount of leaf litter and debris on the forest floor.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
• Imagine a forest, with tall trees overhead, and lower, shrub-like vegetation on the forest floor.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 2 May 2018
• Some crawl across the forest floor in search of a meal, while others occupy leafy perches and leap onto unsuspecting hosts.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• The forest floor was dotted with native plants including mayapples, wood violets and jack-in-the-pulpits.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2018
• There are other kinds of ambition, however, and if big business tends toward monoculture, there is biodiversity out on the fringes where strange creatures flourish on the forest floor.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• New grass and plant shoots were carpeting the forest floor.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024