How to Use grove in a Sentence

grove

noun
  • An open pine grove stretched south.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Dense forests have replaced the olive groves.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Fire has swept through many of those groves in recent years.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Look for the groves of maple trees, which locals tap for syrup.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 July 2024
  • Estes looks at the trees and then back out at the dying groves around him.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There, guests can view the eclipse from on-site olive groves and grape vineyards.
    — Cassandra Brooklyn, AFAR Media, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The park will rely on a large grove of trees to provide shade.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2019
  • His wife brings a pear harvested from a grove in their front yard.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • When nature called, the duo pulled off the road near an orange grove.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Hodder said of the grove, which the league has wanted to buy for two decades.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Mature trees, a guest house and a small citrus grove filled out the half-acre grounds.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • All was not right in the shady oak groves of northeastern Spain.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • There are rolling and rocky hills, tall pine forests, coves, bays, olive groves and beaches — five of them.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The two reach the valley where Elsa points out a grove and then a tree.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Craving rolling hills, olive groves, and a glass of Chianti at dusk?
    — Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 18 May 2026
  • Almost all the trees in the grove were at least scorched, Kerbavaz said.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • And the damage goes far beyond the groves themselves.
    — Paul Meador, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
  • In the Fazio plan, the grove is shown in the middle of the practice range.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Peace to be found in a quiet grove of tall trees or on the bank of a remote river.
    — Lauren Melink, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing but the sky, mountains and olive groves surround you.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The ceremony took place in a grove of trees, the aisle lined with white rose petals.
    — Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 26 June 2024
  • From Roman streets in Split to olive groves on Brac.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Her piece was surf and turf, moving from the grove to the pool, and would be filmed in a single shot.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Sure enough, the wine smelled like a grove of cedars and carried hints of mushrooms, black earth, and the sea.
    — Alex Halberstadt, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The Grove of Ancestors was more like a gallery than a grove.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The wedding took place outside in a 120-year-old grove of trees.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2021
  • At one end of the village was a bamboo grove; at the other was a fishpond.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Theirs was at the edge of the grove, with a view over the steppe, the very last—for privacy, said the girl.
    — Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The smoke jumpers had been expected to reach the grove Tuesday.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Deluxe pavilions come with 12-meter pools and the best views over the olive groves to the sea.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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