How to Use grapevine in a Sentence

grapevine

noun
  • Here are the blue skies, the tawny hills, the grapevines tinged fierce red.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The grapevine might be buzzing about you in the upcoming week.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Carve out the gourd of your choice, fill it with fall blooms, and add grapevine for even more charm.
    Shelby Deering, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2020
  • In a few cases, swathes of grapevines died when the lanternflies moved in.
    Nala Rogers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • To make: Start by spray painting a grapevine wreath black.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In the play, Sassy, Sampson’s narrator, claims to have heard the truth through the grapevine.
    Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • And up to this point, Harvey’s been fairly silent about all that’s come through the grapevine.
    Tre’vell Anderson, Essence, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The list includes grapevines, black cherry trees and sycamores.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Dances often had knee lifts, grapevines and steps forward and back.
    Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The neighbor kid burned down your cherry, but the grapevine’s looking fine.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This has proved to be an effective method for killing wild grapevines for decades.
    oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2019
  • At the same time, grapevines also spread westward across the north African coastline.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Most crew who jump ship do so not through agencies but through the old-fashioned grapevine.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Reputations are made and lost by what’s heard on the grapevine.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • Add them to a plain grapevine wreath and finish with faux spiders and webbing.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Cut or break the band binding the stems tightly together in a grapevine wreath.
    Penelope O'Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • This means that the grapevine has had just one reproductive cycle in the past 1,800 years.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Attach lengths of grapevine just below the opening with T-pins.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • Jared Underwood found his way to Shah through the ayahuasca grapevine.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Kendricks was seen on the CBS broadcast grabbing his left calf during a grapevine warmup drill.
    Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • It is strongly advised to grow your grapevine on some sort of support.
    Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Word through the grapevine is that Gossip Grill is serving up whiskeys at $2 off on Thursdays.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Around the doors flat pilasters have carved leaf corbels at their tops, plus a header carved with grapevines.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Because before there was Twitter, there was the grapevine.
    Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
  • The grapevine theme is on the pitcher and matching glasses, along with the covered compote and a sugar bowl with a lid.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • Beyond the windows were rows of soon-to-bud grapevines and a mashup of hickory and pecan trees known as hicans.
    Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • Craft one out of materials like grapevine, berries, and leaves.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 13 July 2023
  • Kebort also heard through the grapevine that Sam and Tim Von Kennel were trying to get his club shut down.
    Kashmir Hill, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Scattered around a natural grapevine are hearts and berries.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Start with a basic grapevine wreath, then tuck in sprigs of faux eucalyptus, dusty miller, and more.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023

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