The verdant pasture was perfect for grazing the sheep in the spring. From LearnThat.org.
To me the word verdant brings images of lush vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
For its entire existence in English verdant has meant the green of plants. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
While the word verdant came to English directly from Latin in the late 1500s. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
Boiled Leg of Lamb serves with cauliflower on a "verdant" bed of spinach. From Wordnik.com. [Alexia's London: Supper June 11, 1876] Reference
It is called "verdant" thought it is so only in comparison with the other Greek islands more arid than itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Parts of the 51-mile waterway are lush and verdant. From Wordnik.com. [A River Really Runs Through It] Reference
I tried to feel it — blue air touching verdant leaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Husbands] Reference
The verdant leaves swayed in her spotted glass like seaweed. From Wordnik.com. [Jew] Reference
I chose the latter, expecting the path to be soft and verdant. From Wordnik.com. [Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens] Reference
Then, trek through a verdant rain forest in Hana, off Highway 31. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: Another Day In Paradise] Reference
The VA's been healing people at the still verdant site since the Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [Anthea Raymond: Artist Lauren Bon's Strawberry Flag Helps Bring Attention to California Veterans] Reference
Thousands of once verdant green trees have turned brown, cracked and brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Shearer: Happy Days Are Not Here Again: Obama, China and the Coming Great Contraction] Reference
In the verdant Sichuan county of Santai, for instance, a little expertise can go a long way. From Wordnik.com. [Field Of Dreams] Reference
Several long and verdant green lawns lie within and between the blocks surrounding our apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Lawn] Reference
In New Guinea, a woman is alone in a verdant clearing, in heavy labor with a child she doesn't want. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Small World, After All] Reference
Beauty of the wood, the verdant walls of which were to separate him forever from the world of cities. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He found the switch, rolled down the tinted glass and squinted at the deep verdant forest as we passed. From Wordnik.com. [Simmer Time] Reference
Here and there, oases left by the devastating hand of time, rose high plateaus, tree-crowned and verdant. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Sometimes called Scotland's forgotten corner, it glories in verdant countryside, standing stones and legend. From Wordnik.com. [A life in writing: James Robertson] Reference
Police vans were parked on the quiet street, where the gated entrance to the villa opens onto verdant gardens. From Wordnik.com. [L'Oreal Heiress Met By French Police, Questioned About Her Finances] Reference
One corner at first, a verdant ground fog creeping toward the antique cars like a plague of the first-born. From Wordnik.com. [Cover Story] Reference
He invited us to meet him at his home in a verdant, idyllic part of New Jersey away from the noise and crowds. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Haden And Keith Jarrett Channel The Standards] Reference
Über-verdant bright greens have girded (and are smart gridding) in the battle for an energy-efficient füture. From Wordnik.com. [Consumer Reports' Top Buzzwords of 2009] Reference
Certainly, the network, which debuts on July 1 with Time Warner as its prime backer, will enjoy verdant pickings. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Courtroom Junkies] Reference
Its verdant hills, pristine streets and unfailingly gracious populace can make one forget the horrors in its past. From Wordnik.com. [The Lessons of Rwanda] Reference
In verdant, rainy climates the soil is leached of plant nutrients and the food grown there is much less nutritious. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The two-hour ride between the villages winds through verdant rhododendron-dotted meadows and past snow-dusted peaks. From Wordnik.com. [Riding the Rails in the Alps] Reference
This sea change will allow us to reclaim LA's natural beauty, and create verdant, open spaces throughout our urban landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Antonio Villaraigosa: A New Chapter for the LA River] Reference
I ate a meal I could not afford, composed of verdant herbs, piquant meats and expertly cooked varieties of black and white rice. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 1-6] Reference
And at Anza-Borrego State Park, east of San Diego, once dusty fields are now verdant with different varieties of flowering cacti. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Weather's Silver Lining] Reference
Since then, a €€7.8 billion renaturalization project has brought back clean lakes, verdant meadows and restored "wilderness.". From Wordnik.com. [Conservation: Coming Back From the Brink] Reference
Up on the side of Sheen Hill the other morning we gazed west across the verdant valley as the sun came from behind a passing cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands] Reference
Hollywood movies like "The Dead Poet's Society" and "School Ties" portrayed them as verdant playgrounds for over-privileged Brahmins. From Wordnik.com. [Prep Chic] Reference
Like water and verdant pasture to a sheep, so the promise that we will not be abandoned by the source of life and hope sustains us. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: I Shall Fear No Evil] Reference
The barren plots from the 1940s photos have become verdant yards shaded by massive willow oaks and large pink and purple crepe myrtles. From Wordnik.com. [Where We Live: Fairlington, in Northern Virginia] Reference
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