How to Use leaflet in a Sentence

leaflet

noun
  • Protesters were handing out leaflets condemning the government's environmental policies.
  • There is a bud eye above each set of leaflets on a rose stem.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • To soothe tensions, the South had promised to stop the leaflet-launchers in 2018.
    The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • Hence the robocalls and the leaflets left on car windshields.
    Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In the week of Jan. 7, the area was scattered with leaflets from the IDF warning of a coming strike.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Both mirrors are gold, and both have that classic leaflet scroll at the top.
    Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The plant has leaves made of three-leaflet bunches with smooth or scalloped edges.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
  • He and a couple of other students took to the streets and passed leaflets to commuters.
    Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The leaflets frightened some students, and scared some of their parents.
    Amelia Nierenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The edges of each leaflet may be smooth or have a few coarse notches but are not serrated.
    Mike Hogan, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
  • In the meantime, the agency has added a warning to the vaccine’s drug leaflet for the European Union.
    Hilda Bastian, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Our cuts are made at an outward-facing bud eye at a five-leaflet leaf.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The group passed out leaflets dense with analysis and demands.
    Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine, 22 June 2019
  • Morning tea was always made with a leaflet or two of lemongrass.
    Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The regime also dropped leaflets in the area urging surrender.
    Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • People have been doing it with books and leaflets for centuries.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
  • The leaflet tells them they will be charged with a crime and provides a hotline number to call to help them locate their kids.
    Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • Poison ivy produces three green leaflets on long, hairy stems.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
  • The female adult lays an egg just below the surface of a leaflet with her sharp ovipositor.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Make your cuts one-quarter inch above an outward facing bud eye at a five-leaflet leaf.
    Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • If using a lemongrass leaflet, twist it into a spiral, and slide it into the glass.
    Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • This shrub or vine also has three leaflets with alternating leaves on the steam.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Most people won’t change their behavior at all in response to a leaflet.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Walter Reuther stood on the overpass at the Rouge plant on Miller Road and was beaten senseless for passing out leaflets.
    Freep.com, 12 Apr. 2020
  • But area organized labor was not on board with the leaflet campaign.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2020
  • At the time, the EMA recommended the vaccine’s leaflet be updated to tell people about the rare clots.
    Nicole Winfield, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The upper leaf color is a pale green and the undersides are white usually with five leaflets.
    oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
  • By the time she was finished, a decade later, her little leaflet had ballooned into a 600-page tome.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Tucked in our skirts under our false pregnant bellies, leaflets.
    SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • On the way down, the aeronaut, having toasted to freedom, dropped leaflets of the new constitution.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023

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