How to Use leafed in a Sentence

leafed

adjective

• Large, firm-leafed plants may be cleaned with a soft sponge or cloth and tepid water.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• The trail/road starts out with a slight rise and a few small hills, easy and pretty this spring amid fresh-leafed oak woodlands.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2018
• These big broad-leafed plants, if sown correctly, can grow 10 tons of forage per acre.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020
• The herbicide will kill the grass, including the roots, without injuring the broad-leafed plants.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 July 2020
• On the other side of the path were fields of swaying saw grass and hardwood hammocks — dense stands of broad-leafed trees that grow on a slight rise of only a few inches.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
• Traces of leafcutter bees can be seen on roses and other thick-leafed plants that have semicircles cut out around the edge.
  — Linnea Covington, The Know, 4 Aug. 2020
• The dining room is silver-leafed and hand-painted with flora and fauna by local artist David A. Ryan.
  — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• Some tied little purple ribbons into the red-leafed maple tree planted next to the track in her memory.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
• The effect of the wind was intensified since trees were still fully leafed, increasing the surface area that wind could push against.
  — Jacob Feuerstein, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• Most got their name because Beaver Creek was already taken, and also from the narrow-leafed shrub that holds their banks in thickets and tangles.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• Water in the cool of morning and avoid getting water on the rosettes of echeverias and other flat or broad-leafed varieties.
  — Leslie Crawford, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Avoid getting water on fuzzy leafed plants like African violets.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
• There are both green leafed varieties (which can be more aggressive) and dark purple foliaged forms.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2021
• Its other nicknames include Formosa rice tree and Glossy-leafed paper plant.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
• Dark Star is a mammoth green-leafed alocasia, as is the golden-yellow Alocasia lutea.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• Splurge: Gertie modern rose-quartz gold-leafed coffee table.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
• This handsome, broad-leafed evergreen shrub’s leaves have a whitish-silver underside.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• This tough-leafed shrub community established itself as part of the local plant landscape millions of years ago.
  — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
• The city started growing the large and colorfully leafed plant in the 1940s and as its popularity in landscaping grew, so did the industry.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• Rightwing firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was also there for a second day, sitting in the family's pew and taking notes in a cheetah-print notebook with gold-leafed pages.
  — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2019
• This recipe features the classic combo of mushroom, garlic and Tuscan kale, a long-leafed variety that is not as bitter (and prettier) than the common curly kale.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 May 2021
• Ormiston held up a wild leek, a green-leafed member of the onion family with a pungent, edible bulb, and pointed out coral bells, the green, native kind, not the colorful hybrids found at plant nurseries.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• Argelino loquat: This broad-leafed tree produces fragrant flowers followed by large, orange fruit.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• Intensely green, verging on chartreuse, plantains hang like chandeliers from tall broad-leafed plants across the Caribbean.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Garlic chive: This flat-leafed onion cousin is a staple in Asian grocery stores and increasingly common in supermarkets.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2018
• Last among the common winter annual weeds, is the white-flowering common chickweed (Stellaria media), another tiny-leafed plant that hugs the ground.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2018
• Red-leafed varieties include Redhead, Rediculous and Velvet Red.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• The name Mayawell is a play on Mayahuel, the Aztec name for the goddess of agave, a spiny-leafed plant native to the Americas that people have long fermented into alcoholic drinks, and eventually learned to strengthen through distillation.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 12 May 2020
• In small spaces and used alongside smaller leafed plants such as helichrysum, calibrachoas and petunias, the coleus foliage will read as the giant of the group — useful when playing with textural combinations.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• Also, in this broad-leafed, evergreen, tropical forest, light seemed to be a more important factor than rainfall in the forest’s photosynthetic dance.
  — Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024