How to Use fern in a Sentence

fern

noun

• The green walls were thick with moss, flowers, and ferns.
  — Alexandra Kleeman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
• Be sure to check out the neat pyramid shaped rock peeking out of the ferns to the north.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 June 2019
• The woods are full of mountain laurel and ferns growing on the sides of the slope.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 June 2019
• The tubers survive in the soil, so the fern can reappear.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
• Our staghorn fern is getting dark spots on the long leaves.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• The rows of leaves on a fern seem to resemble prison bars.
  — Amada Torruella, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
• Then there are the immense fields of ferns that seem to appear out of nowhere.
  — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
• Swalberg likes native ferns on the shady side of a house.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• As the ferns grow, add two to three inches at a time until the hole is filled.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 17 Apr. 2018
• Scary spiky ferns that would have been at home in Jurassic Park.
  — Leslie Eaton, idahostatesman, 10 Jan. 2018
• Light red fruity aromas as well as some earth and wet ferns.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• In the field around us grew a grassy fern known as fowl mannagrass.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
• That’s where Groot found the couple, who had been living for a week on ferns.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• These critters foraged in the palm forests that replaced the ferns.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2019
• Also, the ferns are grown under the shade of large oak hammocks.
  — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• But in a twist, the plucky survivors in the fiery aftermath proved to be ferns and hardy, ground-dwelling birds.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 May 2018
• For the fork fern, the research team estimates that less than 1% of its genome does.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• The name reflects the appearance of the leaves, which are tongue-shaped and part of a plant in the fern family.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• Mosses, lichens, fern mats, even other trees all grow in the canopy soil.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2019
• The two creeks flow through rocky canyons shaded by pines and Douglas firs, where ferns grow along the banks.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• Admire the view of the cedar and fern-covered mountains that surround you.
  — Sunset Magazine, 24 May 2022
• This spurred the growth of new vegetation, such as ferns and conifer trees.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The plants can be a bit variable, having fern-like leaves of light to dark green color.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
• Roy jokes in Spanish about who will cut the most ferns that day, and greets an uncle who works there.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2018
• There were shells dangling around her neck and ferns wrapped into a wreath on top of her head.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The dark wood paneling gives the impression of a 1970s fern bar without the Tiffany lamps or the ferns.
  — Peter Meehan, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Sarsgaard tends to this man’s sore ego like a gardener to a fern.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
• The castle’s stone walls were as thick as a bus, covered with moss and miniature ferns.
  — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• Greenery dots the space — small ferns, a Sansevieria, a ZZ plant.
  — Nneka McGuire, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• For something more early 20th-century, specimen ferns give the right feeling.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024