How to Use deforest in a Sentence

deforest

verb

• It’s surrounded by nickel mines, deforested hills and exposed red dirt.
  — NPR, 7 May 2026
• Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
• At the end of this year, the European Union will require that imports of seven commodities and some derived products come from places that were not deforested or degraded.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2025
• According to the nonprofit organization World Wildlife Fund, about 17 percent of the rainforest has been deforested, and about one-third of what remains has been degraded, including from the impacts of extreme drought.
  — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
• Carvalho’s skepticism is backed by Earthsight’s research, which has repeatedly linked cotton and leather supply chains tied to major brands to illegally deforested land in and around ecologically fragile regions such as the Brazilian Amazon.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 26 May 2026