Leafy

//ˈliːfi//

"Leafy" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Foods rich in vitamin E include dark-green, leafy vegetables, beans, nuts and whole-grain cereals.

I've heard that you don't eat green leafy vegetables. You say that it is food for animals.

When you don't eat leafy foods, you can't get vitamins.

I was surprised that when I heard that people really don't eat leafy vegetables.

We don't eat enough leafy vegetables.

Sami lived on a leafy avenue.

He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts.

Gotham Greens provides rooftop-grown leafy greens and herbs to supermarkets and top-ranked restaurants like Gramercy Tavern, which uses seasonal vegetables but also depends on the reliability of produce from urban hydroponic farms.

Algiers needs more beautiful and leafy trees.

"Well?" I inquired, as soon as we were protected from prying eyes by the leafy screen.

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The Earth is facing a climate crisis, but it’s also getting greener and leafier. According to new research, the rise is largely courtesy of China and India.

Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.

They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.

Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.

Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.

The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.

In an essay for the New Yorker about her own move, also prompted by a breakup, Dunham contrasts the chaotic grit of New York with the “spaciousness” of London – a city that “doesn’t jangle me”. Dunham, as you may by now be sensing, lives in one of the leafier parts of north London.

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