How to Use forest in a Sentence

forest

1 of 2 noun
  • Fires destroyed acres of forest.
  • The forest comes right to the pane.
    Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Would clearing forests warm the earth?
    Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Dense forests have replaced the olive groves.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When wetlands were filled in and forests cut down.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Or that there is a state forest within the city?
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • On the far left, there is a burning forest.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 21 Mar. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 9 Nov. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025

forest

2 of 2 verb
  • So, too, will forest fires like the ones this summer that struck Siberia.
    The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • This fall, steal a moment to forest bathe or lose yourself in a wide open space far from the madding crowd.
    Mary Carol Garrity, kansascity, 1 Oct. 2017
  • The island was forested with palmettos and live oaks, but there was no sign of primate life.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Whether you’re headed somewhere remote and forested or through a string of big cities, this is gear made to last.
    Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • These three trails have varied scenery from urban to forest to rural areas.
    John Pana, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The building’s roof was forested with aerials and satellite dishes.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Botanical garden bathing is close enough to forest bathing that only sticklers would find fault.
    Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
  • That has lowered the rate that forests soak up carbon dioxide and increased the risk of wildfires, which have added to emissions.
    Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • One side of the draw where the deer lay is heavily forested, with timber running from the bottom clear over the top of the ridge.
    William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Keeping rivers fishable and forests healthy shouldn’t be controversial.
    Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • But this would mean foresting an area with a size somewhere between that of India and Canada.
    The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • The river side is forested with cottonwoods, black walnut, willow, valley oak and sycamore trees.
    Al Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
  • The Smokies is densely forested, with nearly nine hundred miles of trail and little to no cell service.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Overall, the collected plant evidence shows that the area was humid and forested when the dinosaurs roamed.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Orpheus is seven miles long and a mile and a half at its widest, lushly forested and gently hilly, with the resort tucked in above a fringe of white-sand beach.
    Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The porch at Las Cruces opens to a wide expanse of mountains alternately cleared and forested.
    Jennie Erin Smith, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The same could be said of the careful management that goes into keeping Michigan’s state forests healthy and abundant.
    Michigan Department Of Natural Resources, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2018
  • In recent years forest fires in Alaska have broken records, burning more acreage, more intensely and for longer.
    Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The early humans living in these caves would have forested for berries and hunted smaller animals like monkeys and small deer.
    Nick Whigham, Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • Before the impact, the area was richly forested and home to many species of dinosaur, as well as small mammals that were around the size of a porcupine.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Taiga forest north of the Mongolian border, is a mile deep in some places and believed to be 25 million years old.
    Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The valley was once deeply forested, but its trees had been burned for charcoal, to provide income for militants and their families.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The viper was transported to a cage in a lab that resembled the semi-arid land of scrub and forest the snakes normally inhabit.
    Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Buhl said impacts to forest health are taking out roughly as many trees as wildfires, which are also now more likely and more intense by climate change.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Photos shared on Facebook show the rescue scene was heavily forested, and rescuers worked in knee-deep water to save the man.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 31 May 2026
  • Portugal, like most southern European countries, is prone to forest fires in the dry summer months.
    Armando Franca, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
  • Over the years there have been tensions between the Gujjars and Hindus in the region over land use and the right to forest resources.
    Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
  • At 8,000 feet above sea level, the North Rim's broad plateaus that drop into the canyon are thickly forested with pine trees.
    Ryan Heinsius, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This forested trek goes past native ohia lehua trees and vistas of Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on 13 counts of arson to forest land.
    Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019

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