How to Use orchard in a Sentence

orchard

noun
  • Or maybe the trees were the remnants of an old orchard.
    Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Ritterspachs’ plans call for 400 trees in the orchard.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • Many of those troops are now camped out in the fields and orchards along the Gaza border.
    Susannah George, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the orchards, apples lay rotting by the bushel on the ground.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Or an orchard full of apples, some strewn around the ground?
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The blossoming orchard laid waste with a wave of the hand.
    The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • The farm has its own orchard with pear and apple trees.
    Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Then in 2005, Gore bought a peach orchard adjacent to the plant.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • How did the detective solve the mystery at the orchard?
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But a lot of the orchard practices took a back seat in recent years.
    Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Enjoy the beautiful view of an orchard made all the more ~dreamy~ by the 8% ABV *wink wink*.
    Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Make your plans with our full list of 21 apple orchards near the Twin Cities.
    Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
  • As the day wears on, the girls’ many small dramas unfold throughout the orchard.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The focal point is the pool, which takes up more than 2,000 square feet and juts out over an olive tree orchard.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some gentle orchard and bush fruit notes try to squeak in but are brushed aside.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Not that everyone at the orchard was so ready to move on.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • Jobs, who had dropped out of Reed, worked at the orchard, helping to produce cider.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Around him was a small orchard of almond and apricot trees and olive vines.
    Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The orchard is in Chippewa Falls, nearly 200 miles west of Green Bay.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The land was, and some still is, an old, overgrown apple orchard.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There was a walnut orchard to the west, sweet tangerines to the north, an onion farm south and horses across the fence to the west.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The cherry orchard was the last stop of the trip, Jill Biden’s first solo travel since the debate.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • At Pham Thanh Hong’s dragon fruit orchard in Vietnam, most of the lights are turned off.
    New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Thefts usually happen at night, when no one is in the orchard and the bees are back in their hives.
    Fox News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Don't miss out on the freshly baked doughnuts and pies that are turned out of the area's orchards and bakeries too.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 July 2023
  • The slain family was among the rows of an almond orchard.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The park outside—formerly an orchard—is a fine place to read a few of his lines.
    Ben Reynolds, Travel, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The orchards were still flourishing in 1980, during the first week of June, when bad news flew in on two wings and six legs: two small insects stuck in a backyard trap in San Jose.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Search for the survival family packs in the orchard and surrounding forest.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024

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