arborealin a sentence
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Small, social, arboreal and nocturnal mammals tend to have the longest and densest whiskers.
arboreal = living in trees
- These trees were without a doubt the gates into a meerkat arboreal city with more bustle in it than Calcutta.† (source)
- He scans the horizon from his arboreal vantage point, but he can't see anything that looks like smoke.† (source)
- I was sure they were vegetarians until I saw Del munching on the cold corpse of an infant arboreal.† (source)
- It was a comfortable bed, and the lymrill had come to prefer its soft mattress and downy comforter to his arboreal habitat.† (source)
- Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue, a place intensely urban, cacophonous, cluttered, swarming with jangled souls and nerves; but here the arboreal green and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park's border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city—Richmond perhaps, or Chattanooga or Columbia.† (source)
- But it was equally possible that stobor were completely arboreal and his one chance lay in climbing down quickly and spending the night on the ground.† (source)
- Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say.† (source)
- I had never seen them cook a meal, not even the rare corpse of an arboreal they devoured.† (source)
- How many forlorn hours in the arboreal city with only meerkats for company?† (source)
- Arboreal, a fine word.† (source)
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- In Connecticut, somewhere on the beautiful winding arboreal highway that stretches north and south along the riverbank between New Milford and Canaan, there had been an old country inn with slanted oak floors, a sunny white bedroom with samplers on the wall, two damp panting Irish setters downstairs and the smell of applewood burning in the fireplace—and it was there, Sophie told me that night, that Nathan tried to take her life and then end his own in what has come to be known in the vernacular as a suicide pact.† (source)
- Moreover, they drop the /u/ in many derivatives, for example, in /arboreal/, /armory/, /clamorously/, /clangorous/, /odoriferous/, /humorist/, /laborious/ and /rigorism/.† (source)
- In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty trees wave in different directions their firstclass foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.† (source)
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