How to Use forest floor in a Sentence

forest floor

noun
  • Pulling it from the forest floor and from the trees does work.
    — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
  • In the wild, the pothos can grow along the forest floor and climb trees.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And here death appears, a form of life on the forest floor.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Fires on the forest floor cause the trees’ cones to dry out and release seeds.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
  • There’s a small lump, rising no more than a foot or two from the forest floor.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • At the base of the tree trunks, in patches across the forest floor, grass has grown.
    — Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
  • In old-growth redwoods, a fire will scour the forest floor, but the big trees live on.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Roads shut down, the forest floor comes alive, and tens of millions of red crabs take over.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 July 2024
  • This mercury can then enter the forest floor when the leaves drop.
    — Jacqueline Gerson, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Little rain can reach the forest floor because of the canopy.
    — Greg Sullivan, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Ephemerals are most common in the rich soil of forest floors.
    — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
  • This balsam and cedar scent transports you to the forest floor.
    — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Take a single square meter of forest floor and then sit back and just watch.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The sun breaks through the treeline and dapples the forest floor.
    — Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • With the loss of trees, more sunlight reaches the forest floor.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • Good fire creeps along the forest floor, clearing out fuel on the ground.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The trees get drenched and nourished; water drips to the forest floor.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Once upon a time, flames hugged the forest floor, keeping it tidy.
    — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 5 May 2018
  • There was no path, and the forest floor was overgrown with bracken and bush.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Grass then was still an odd little weed, vying for a spot on the forest floor.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • For months after the fires died down, the forest floor smouldered.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The light changed on the forest floor, filtered through the high branches.
    — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Just take dry twigs sitting on the forest floor and don't break off fresh branches.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The forest floor is alive with mushrooms, lichens, moss and fox droppings.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The rest stood upon the forest floor, thick with mulch, moss, and ants from a nearby colony.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Flames are visible on the forest floor.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Privet grown in the woods does not allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
    — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Morel cherry, thyme and forest floor aromas.
    — Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Tarantulas don't just live on forest floors.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That does make a difference as sunlight gets blocked from the forest floor.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026

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