Sentence examples for leaf by leaf from inspiring English sources

They must be regularly pruned, repotted, resoiled, watered, shaped (with small scissors, sometimes leaf by leaf) and kept healthy.

And radicchio is better peeled from the head leaf by leaf, then torn, rather than chopped like a cabbage.

These cut-down paper leaves came to light when the Vienna bookdealers Gilhofer & Ranschburg offered them leaf by leaf in an auction of 3 April 1911.

Each tree, and there are forests of them, is stitched leaf by leaf, with leaves overlapping to create what amounts to a three-dimensional relief.

By Louis O. Coxe The New Yorker, November 3 , 1956P. 44 Leaf by leaf, the days descend View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By Ceridwen Dovey.

After her painful and drawn-out divorce, she said she would "eat the world leaf by leaf," and the author brings to life Wharton's joy, consuming energy and ability to turn adversity into fuel and hunger.

The leaf-by-leaf naturalism of foreground treetops only compounds the unreality of a scene in which near and far, and up and down, are dizzyingly confused.

And then the speaker's relationship to my father would emerge, the leaf-by-leaf dissection of the family tree always winding up in the same way: "... and my father knew your great-grandfather, who was a great 16th of September orator".

The show's earliest and second-largest painting, "A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct" (1852), is a perfect riff on Lorrain's Arcadian views -- with their leaf-by-leaf depictions of lush, sheltering trees, and their contented cattle and herdsmen -- even though the aqueduct of the title is pushed way to the background.

Houseplants with many small leaves, such as nerve plants, would be intensely time-consuming to clean leaf-by-leaf.

Total phenolic content and 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay was measured for control leaf (cK), leaf damaged by MW and leaf damaged by HA.