Sentence examples for less evergreen from inspiring English sources

Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy's book, with its satirical portrait of a racist South, is definitely less evergreen than the songs.

Like the other two, it is more or less evergreen in the winter, but it lacks pachysandra's ability to bore even the most tolerant of gardeners, and it will not climb up walls and rip off shingles, as will ivy in its march to cover everything in its path.

Where they extend into regions of seasonal rainfall, such as monsoon zones, they become less truly evergreen, holding many trees that stand leafless during the short dry seasons.

Up to that point Ms. LuPone had seemed to be having a swell time playing La Mome Pistache, a mercenary Parisian cafe proprietor, in this amiable staging of a less than evergreen Porter show.

The forests within the Quehanna Important Bird Area are 84 percent hardwoods, 4 percent mixed hardwood and evergreens, less than 1 percent evergreens, 7 percent transitional between forests and fields, and 3 percent perennial herbaceous plants.

Tree growth varies cyclically with season (less strongly in evergreens), preserving a record of historic climates.

Rocky slopes and gravelly areas on N side of pass; mostly alpine herbs with scattered colonies of evergreen Rhododendron (less than 1 m tall).

OO More Extreme Drought, Not Beetle Epidemics, Fuel Wildfires - trees killed by bark beetle epidemics (in turn fueled by longer warmer summers) are usually less flammable than living evergreens, since they quickly lose the flammable biochemicals present in green needles.

Members of the genus are perennial evergreen herbs, generally less than 60 cm (2 feet) tall.

Moreover, the deciduous forests had higher internal variability while mixed and evergreen stands showed less internal variability forming closer groups.

Barbra Streisand sang a nice version of "Evergreen" that was only moderately less sexy than Drake and Rihanna's duet on "What's My Name".