How to Use forest floor in a Sentence

forest floor

noun
  • In the wild, the pothos can grow along the forest floor and climb trees.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Pulling it from the forest floor and from the trees does work.
    oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
  • At the base of the tree trunks, in patches across the forest floor, grass has grown.
    Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The sun breaks through the treeline and dapples the forest floor.
    Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The fire burned the top layer of the forest floor, known as the duff, Arnum said.
    Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • Fires on the forest floor cause the trees’ cones to dry out and release seeds.
    Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
  • Notes of black fruit, spice, forest floor, and black tea.
    Michelle Williams, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The light changed on the forest floor, filtered through the high branches.
    Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In old-growth redwoods, a fire will scour the forest floor, but the big trees live on.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The trees get drenched and nourished; water drips to the forest floor.
    John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • With the loss of trees, more sunlight reaches the forest floor.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • And to tie it all with a bow, the last shot of the scene is poor Fergus’s hand lying on the forest floor.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Roads shut down, the forest floor comes alive, and tens of millions of red crabs take over.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 July 2024
  • There’s a small lump, rising no more than a foot or two from the forest floor.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • But at the very top of the ridge, a grove of pristine, old-growth hemlocks grow straight and healthy out of the forest floor.
    Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The felling of trees and the burning of stumps in the Adirondacks had reduced the acidity of the forest floor.
    Rupert Darwall, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The creek has cut a path through the soil, leaving 10 feet drops in some places from the forest floor to the creek bed below.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The rest stood upon the forest floor, thick with mulch, moss, and ants from a nearby colony.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • For months after the fires died down, the forest floor smouldered.
    The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • This mercury can then enter the forest floor when the leaves drop.
    Jacqueline Gerson, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
  • There was no path, and the forest floor was overgrown with bracken and bush.
    Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Good fire creeps along the forest floor, clearing out fuel on the ground.
    Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2022
  • That’s when the fire creeps across on the bottom of the forest floor, cleaning up some old leaf litter.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Its bones lay on the forest floor, the stony vestiges of an old mill town now engulfed by vines and brush.
    Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Red and black fruits were joined by forest floor and damp earth notes in this wine, aged 15 months in barrels.
    Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • On the forest floor 99 million years ago, a baby snake got trapped in a blob of sap that fell from a tree.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2018
  • Once free, the bird flew only about 50 feet before landing on the forest floor right next to the trail.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2022
  • Privet grown in the woods does not allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
    Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The forests tend to grow very densely, the tree canopy allowing little sunlight through to the forest floor.
    Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
  • Aromas of smoke, walnuts, forest floor and mocha, as well as a hit of German chocolate cake in this Tuscan wine with 13.5% alcohol.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

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