How to Use greening in a Sentence

greening

noun
  • Is the greening of the canal free to the public?
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The greening efforts don't stop there.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Potatoes with lots of greening should be tossed in the compost heap.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Measures like a box tax that funds research about citrus greening may help.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Give citrus trees the best care possible to avoid the greening disease.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2017
  • Give citrus trees the best care possible to avoid the greening disease.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
  • Citrus greening is a disease that causes trees to produce less fruit that is smaller in size.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Fun for those young and old, the greening of the canal will take place Thursday, March 12.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And yet Taub wants to stop the increase in carbon dioxide that has caused this greening effect.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The greening of the landscape is already well underway.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The fleet purchase also sets a high-water mark for corporate fleet greening.
    — Wired, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Brazil’s larger groves and different practices have helped control the spread of greening.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • But the greening of Gitmo, as this base is known, comes with a particular challenge.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011
  • Replacing the tree with any citrus is a bit risky if greening disease is present in other nearby citrus.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Where those new trees go provides the other important component of re-greening.
    — Dustin Renwick, Environment, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Before the greening of Greenville, the Irish holiday was marked with balls and tea parties.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Some have faith that ongoing research will find a cure for citrus greening, which would go a long way toward recovery.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Arctic greening is a blaring warning light on the climate damage dashboard, both for the region and the world at large.
    — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The greening of the canal is free and open to the public, according to the organizer's website.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Slowly, a re-greening project here is bringing plants, grass and agriculture back to this desert, once teeming with life that was lost from overuse of the land.
    — Daniel Wolfe, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Citrus greening is transmitted by the tiny Asian citrus psyllid.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Citrus greening is transmitted by a tiny critter called the Asian citrus psyllid.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Citrus greening is transmitted by a tiny critter called the Asian citrus psyllid.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The greatest promise lies in antibiotics created to lessen the effects of greening.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • For more than a decade, citrus growers have battled a disease known as greening, which attacks and eventually kills trees.
    — Malena Carollo, miamiherald, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The weekend is not as warm but still sunny and mild, so get out and enjoy the greening of the land before chillier air arrives early next week.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The greening of the site has brought a new pool of visitors, whose total number surpasses three million in a typical year.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • While the re-greening of New York was intentional, some of the species now seen were unexpected.
    — Erika Ryan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Citrus greening, which is transmitted by a tiny critter called the Asian citrus psyllid, kills citrus trees.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In the ensuing years, some headway has been made in understanding the role of bacteria in citrus greening.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023

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