Sentence examples for grove like from inspiring English sources

He tells of meeting giants on the A14 with the relish of a natural charmer, and swaggers about his ­woodland grove like a dispossessed monarch.

The Battle of Kellogg's Grove, like many of the battles and skirmishes during the Black Hawk War, had no real order or strategy.

One tree's light will be noticed by the next's, so people's movements ripple throughout the grove like a pebble plunged into a pond.

He spat out the last word with a classic Grove-like flourish of disgust.

If ever a person was out of place in a Bohemian Grove-like orgy, it is Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill.

"I think the way he uses plant material is inspired, especially his tightly planted groves, like the one at the New School," Mr. Smith said.

At the time, Afghanistan was fast becoming a beacon in the region and the groves, like much of the country's progress in that period, were the brainchild of a forward-looking king, Mohammad Zahir Shah.

Mythographers say that in some cultures early man believed that groves like these stands of hemlocks were sacred, that old trees were pillars of the firmament and symbols of immortality.

Rosie's remembrance of that delirious visit is part family story, part tall tale, and her voice alternates between awed and irreverent as she describes the country she has known all her life, with farms "nestled in walnut groves like islands in a sea of grain," and the eye-opening, heart-stopping city, where the street is laid in granite blocks and riding on pavement is like flying.

This was agreeable to Groves, who liked the fact that as a naval officer Bradbury was both a military man and a scientist.

Companies like Grove Collaborative (disclosure: Mayfield is an investor) are experiencing hypergrowth in part by using real people connecting with consumers over text to bring a curated, personalized experience to shopping for household staples.