How to Use grapevine in a Sentence

grapevine

noun
  • Here are the blue skies, the tawny hills, the grapevines tinged fierce red.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • No one wants to be told something through the grapevine.
    Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
  • The grapevine might be buzzing about you in the upcoming week.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Carve out the gourd of your choice, fill it with fall blooms, and add grapevine for even more charm.
    Shelby Deering, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2020
  • In a few cases, swathes of grapevines died when the lanternflies moved in.
    Nala Rogers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • To make: Start by spray painting a grapevine wreath black.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In the play, Sassy, Sampson’s narrator, claims to have heard the truth through the grapevine.
    Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Avoid the grapevine, Scorpio, but don't dismiss the facts on the table.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 May 2018
  • And up to this point, Harvey’s been fairly silent about all that’s come through the grapevine.
    Tre’vell Anderson, Essence, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The list includes grapevines, black cherry trees and sycamores.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The list includes grapevines, black cherry trees and sycamores.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Word of this change spread with great interest through the pimp grapevine around the country.
    Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Over the next three years, 2,644 more acres were added across the county, more than doubling the footprint of grapevines here.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
  • Dances often had knee lifts, grapevines and steps forward and back.
    Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The neighbor kid burned down your cherry, but the grapevine’s looking fine.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The most critical time in a grapevine’s life is in May, when bloom occurs.
    Mary Orlin, The Mercury News, 20 May 2017
  • This has proved to be an effective method for killing wild grapevines for decades.
    oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2019
  • But the sweetest part of their business -- rows of grapevines -- were left behind.
    Mireya Villarreal, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • At the same time, grapevines also spread westward across the north African coastline.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Pets are welcome, too, and can explore the grapevines and flora on the acres of walking trails.
    Julie Destefano, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • Most crew who jump ship do so not through agencies but through the old-fashioned grapevine.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Reputations are made and lost by what’s heard on the grapevine.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • Add them to a plain grapevine wreath and finish with faux spiders and webbing.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Cut or break the band binding the stems tightly together in a grapevine wreath.
    Penelope O'Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • This means that the grapevine has had just one reproductive cycle in the past 1,800 years.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Attach lengths of grapevine just below the opening with T-pins.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • From a dusty baseball field to a crumpled napkin, and through the coaching grapevine to the Super Bowl.
    Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Some of that grapevine snakes through the Divine Assembly.
    Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Denton has planted grapevines and hops at the fairgrounds.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 July 2017
  • March, run, skip, grapevine, bear crawl, high-step, or any other move of their choice around the house or down a hallway and back.
    Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024

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