Sentence examples for a leaf for from inspiring English sources

Worse, it sheds a leaf for every word Jack utters, bringing both him and the tree closer to death.

Cut a leaf for each apple out of any leftover pastry, and use it to cover any pastry gap at the top of the apple.

When the bacteria find a place that's good for settling down, they anchor themselves to a surface — on a leaf, for example, or inside a human lung.

A Leaf, for example, will be priced at about $33,600, Mr. Jaffe said, compared with Nissan's Versa model with roughly the same frame at about $15,000.

Every few minutes there's a tiny moment of drama — when a caterpillar snacks on a leaf, for instance, or a snail crawls out of its shell.

In a recent experiment, Heidi Appel, a chemical ecologist at the University of Missouri, found that, when she played a recording of a caterpillar chomping a leaf for a plant that hadn't been touched, the sound primed the plant's genetic machinery to produce defense chemicals.

Substitute ketchup for chutney, and a banana leaf for a twist of newspaper (or, less romantically, a foil dish for a polystyrene box), and it's a perfect match.

In plants, N is needed to grow a leaf canopy for intercepting radiation and for photosynthesis in green tissues.

The extracted features were then used for leaf modeling, creating a leaf model for each leaf species in the database.

The changes included creating a financial watchdog to coordinate with international organizations — a new leaf for an organization known for its opaque finances.

She added that she "would not serve as a fig leaf for a government of paralysis".