Sentence examples for proverbial tree from inspiring English sources
The phrase "proverbial tree" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to an idea or concept that can be likened to a tree in terms of its size, complexity, and/or growth potential. For example, "It was clear that this project had the potential to become a proverbial tree, branching out in directions no one had expected."
On the afternoon after I heard the proverbial tree fall in the forest, I hiked into the mountains above Borobudur.
Bowie, it seemed, had left a parting gift: the proverbial tree in whose shade he'd never sit.
"I do sing," she says, "it's just that quite often, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, there is no one there to hear me".
Be careful with the time though – we once ended up discussing whether a fart in the woods would be the same as the proverbial tree falling for a good 20 minutes.
But when it came to his request for reimbursement from the Office of the City Comptroller, he said, it was as if he were the proverbial tree that falls in an empty forest.
The Chinese press reported that a trio of films about Lei Feng's life — "Youthful Days," "The Sweet Smile," and "Lei Feng in 1959" — landed like the proverbial tree in the woods.
(He wasn't a Zuni, but, God damn it, he should have been one!) As he continued talking, his voice trapped in the car, she searched the landscape for the proverbial trees and tried to tune out his voice, to reduce his words to background noise, like the slipstreamed air coming through the open window.
The publication of a book is like the proverbial silent tree falling in the forest, Mackin writes, and the reviewer's job is to tell the world, & 8220That tree fell; I heard it … to be sure books make a sound".
The publication of a book is like the proverbial silent tree falling in the forest, Mackin writes, and the reviewer's job is to tell the world, & 8220That tree fell; I heard it... to be sure books make a sound".
"It was really, as Moataz has said, shaking the proverbial Muslim tree".
The West Countrymen are not quite as far up the proverbial gum tree as they were after losing their first two European games last season: surely, not even they can find a way of messing it up against the struggling Italians of Aironi this weekend.
