How to Use arboreal in a Sentence

arboreal

adjective

• True to its arboreal name, Euclid has grown over the years.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 3 Jan. 2015
• The main desk floats at one end of the studio, perfectly placed to soak in the gorgeous arboreal views.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
• Most trees take the long nap, but holly, pine, fir and spruce bring us unmatched arboreal joy this time of year.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
• And starved of living trees, the structures can go dormant in the soil for decades, waiting to latch on to their next arboreal snack.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
• Any predator clever enough to see through its arboreal disguise and mount an attack will be in for a fright.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• As the sun went down in midtown, the crew formed a kind of arboreal assembly line, passing the branches to the workers scrambling up the frame.
  — Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, Curbed, 26 Nov. 2021
• Inside, the pale wood contrasts sharply with an arboreal green trim around the windows.
  — Becca Endicott, ELLE Decor, 2 Feb. 2018
• Global trade and climate change are poised to make the spread and severity of arboreal plagues and pestilence worse.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Their bodies are slightly flatter than those of non-arboreal species, and their limbs are long.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• For an arboreal intro, walk the 0.6-mile Redwood Loop Trail.
  — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• Fall scenery is nearing its peak across the U.S., and one of the best ways to immerse yourself in the season’s kaleidoscopic views is to camp right under the arboreal canopy.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the arid south, brown or ringed lemurs can scamper for miles on the ground; in Antohakalava, the species are largely arboreal and stay high up in the trees, safe from a catlike predator called the foosa.
  — Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• The house sits on a 1.85-acre lot that Kearns Goodwin said her husband transformed from a mundane lawn into an arboreal refuge.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• To learn more about the city’s arboreal past—and present—connect with Talaysay Tours, which leads insightful walks within Stanley Park.
  — Diane Selkirk, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
• There’s even a Smell-o-Vision version of an arboreal forest.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
• The arboreal forms are generally lighter than their sky-like backdrops, but loosely patterned with spots and lines in bold green, orange and red.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• Yes, in spite of the arboreal nomenclature, blueberries are available for the picking, as well as chestnuts.
  — cleveland, 26 June 2020
• Nearly the whole of humanity, from the arboreal hominins of two million years ago to the urbanites of the late nineteenth century, lived in the shadow of trees.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• The latest sculpture revisits the arboreal theme of some of the studio's previous works.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• Ju is the tree’s legal owner — but arboreal success has many fathers.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
• The paper looked at about a dozen songbird species, including the American robin, red-faced warbler, and other arboreal species, as well as ground-dwelling birds like the house wren and white-breasted nuthatch.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2018
• The arboreal shift from green to gold marks the beginning of autumn for many in temperate climes, a color change that goes hand in hand with pumpkin spice lattes and cozying up as the weather cools.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Standing on a lot redolent of fresh-cut poplar and littered with arboreal debris — tree chunks as large as small cars that were once a 108-foot-tall living organism — Zumot said the choice was easy.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• Primates are the most arboreal mammals, having lived aloft for 55 million years, Lambert says.
  — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2017
• The other subjects include a few near-abstract nature scenes and an owl rendered in bold black lines overprinted with areas of arboreal brown and tan.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• Poway High School will soon be rid of an arboreal eyesore that has drawn complaints from parents and community members.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 20 Sep. 2017
• In 1967, the English returned the arboreal favor, sending four tiny oak trees descended from those grown at Winston Churchill’s Blenheim estate.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• Predators that eat the banana-sized birds include peregrine falcons, stygian owls and arboreal snakes.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Coast live oaks might just be the arboreal mascot of Southern California.
  — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• Some had thought Microraptor was an arboreal creature that glided between the treetops.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024