How to Use arboreal in a Sentence

arboreal

adjective
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  • True to its arboreal name, Euclid has grown over the years.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 3 Jan. 2015
  • The main desk floats at one end of the studio, perfectly placed to soak in the gorgeous arboreal views.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
  • Most trees take the long nap, but holly, pine, fir and spruce bring us unmatched arboreal joy this time of year.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • And starved of living trees, the structures can go dormant in the soil for decades, waiting to latch on to their next arboreal snack.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Any predator clever enough to see through its arboreal disguise and mount an attack will be in for a fright.
    — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
  • As the sun went down in midtown, the crew formed a kind of arboreal assembly line, passing the branches to the workers scrambling up the frame.
    — Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, Curbed, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Inside, the pale wood contrasts sharply with an arboreal green trim around the windows.
    — Becca Endicott, ELLE Decor, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Global trade and climate change are poised to make the spread and severity of arboreal plagues and pestilence worse.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Their bodies are slightly flatter than those of non-arboreal species, and their limbs are long.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • For an arboreal intro, walk the 0.6-mile Redwood Loop Trail.
    — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In the arid south, brown or ringed lemurs can scamper for miles on the ground; in Antohakalava, the species are largely arboreal and stay high up in the trees, safe from a catlike predator called the foosa.
    — Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The house sits on a 1.85-acre lot that Kearns Goodwin said her husband transformed from a mundane lawn into an arboreal refuge.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The arboreal forms are generally lighter than their sky-like backdrops, but loosely patterned with spots and lines in bold green, orange and red.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, in spite of the arboreal nomenclature, blueberries are available for the picking, as well as chestnuts.
    — cleveland, 26 June 2020
  • Nearly the whole of humanity, from the arboreal hominins of two million years ago to the urbanites of the late nineteenth century, lived in the shadow of trees.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The latest sculpture revisits the arboreal theme of some of the studio's previous works.
    — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Ju is the tree’s legal owner — but arboreal success has many fathers.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
  • The paper looked at about a dozen songbird species, including the American robin, red-faced warbler, and other arboreal species, as well as ground-dwelling birds like the house wren and white-breasted nuthatch.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2018
  • The arboreal shift from green to gold marks the beginning of autumn for many in temperate climes, a color change that goes hand in hand with pumpkin spice lattes and cozying up as the weather cools.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Standing on a lot redolent of fresh-cut poplar and littered with arboreal debris — tree chunks as large as small cars that were once a 108-foot-tall living organism — Zumot said the choice was easy.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Primates are the most arboreal mammals, having lived aloft for 55 million years, Lambert says.
    — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The other subjects include a few near-abstract nature scenes and an owl rendered in bold black lines overprinted with areas of arboreal brown and tan.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Poway High School will soon be rid of an arboreal eyesore that has drawn complaints from parents and community members.
    — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Predators that eat the banana-sized birds include peregrine falcons, stygian owls and arboreal snakes.
    — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Coast live oaks might just be the arboreal mascot of Southern California.
    — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • Check out the making of the social-media tree video for more information on what went into the creation of this arboreal social media master.
    — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010
  • But another aspect of Eça’s writing has to be mentioned: how time unfolds with a sublime, almost arboreal leisure.
    — James Guida, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2019
  • Containing a single oak with branches outstretched in arboreal eloquence, it is surrounded by walls of dark stained cedar.
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Trees will continue to soak in standing water, which can cause rot and other arboreal illnesses.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The other dense stretch aligned with where our arboreal relatives, like chimps and gorillas, develop bone density in their hips.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020

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