How to Use fern in a Sentence

fern

noun
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  • The green walls were thick with moss, flowers, and ferns.
    — Alexandra Kleeman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Our staghorn fern is getting dark spots on the long leaves.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The rows of leaves on a fern seem to resemble prison bars.
    — Amada Torruella, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Then there are the immense fields of ferns that seem to appear out of nowhere.
    — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
  • Swalberg likes native ferns on the shady side of a house.
    — oregonlive.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Light red fruity aromas as well as some earth and wet ferns.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That’s where Groot found the couple, who had been living for a week on ferns.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • These critters foraged in the palm forests that replaced the ferns.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Also, the ferns are grown under the shade of large oak hammocks.
    — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The name reflects the appearance of the leaves, which are tongue-shaped and part of a plant in the fern family.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Admire the view of the cedar and fern-covered mountains that surround you.
    — Sunset Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • This spurred the growth of new vegetation, such as ferns and conifer trees.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • There were shells dangling around her neck and ferns wrapped into a wreath on top of her head.
    — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Greenery dots the space — small ferns, a Sansevieria, a ZZ plant.
    — Nneka McGuire, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The park includes palms, ferns, succulents and about 600 trees, all of which have had nine months to grow while the rest of the project was shored up.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Nothing's more peaceful in a shady corner of the yard than a patch of graceful ferns.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 May 2024
  • Every day, 12 hours of sunlight strikes their canopies and beams down through cracks to ferns on the forest floor.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The hole was about five to eight feet wide, obscured by a fern, the paper reported.
    — Meagan Flynn, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The mansion has a long thoroughfare of ferns out front, a pool and a barbecue pit in the back.
    — Yiren Lu, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • For the first thousand years after the impact, small rat-like mammals lived among ferns at the site.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
  • From a trail along the left side of the waterfall, view the thinner upper leaps, tucked in boulders and fern.
    — Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Also on view are a white bird of paradise, ferns, and spider plants.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Surrounding the pools were lime-green devil’s club and lush ferns.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • Above grew conifer trees, ferns, ancient herbs and horsetail plants.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Many types of indoor ferns add a lush, tropical look to any room.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Rainbow bull's-eyes float in our cups like latte ferns.
    — Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The foliage has fern-like leaves and the flowers are showy blooms with spur protrusions at the bottom.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This one grows to a whopping 8-10-feet tall with bright yellow flowers and fern-like, shiny green leaves.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There was Day-Glo, yes, but also chartreuse, fern, mint ...
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Select from native flowers, ferns, grasses or sedges priced by the plant, pot, tray or pack.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024

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