How to Use lobed in a Sentence

lobed

adjective
  • Plants grow as long vines, with curly tendrils and large, lobed leaves.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Plants grow as long vines, with curly tendrils and large, lobed leaves.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
  • The 5 to 7-lobed leaves emerge a purplish-brown and turn green.
    — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
  • Deeply cut, 5-lobed leaves create a dense mound below the flowers.
    — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
  • Plants are named for their handsome,three-lobed foliage, which takes on red, orange, and purple hues in fall.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The woolly, deeply-lobed foliage of dusty miller is covered in tiny silver hairs that give leaves a silver to white sheen.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Sassafras, present in southern Michigan, varies from yellow to deep red in the fall and can have three-lobed or mitten-shaped leaves.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Sassafras, present in southern Michigan, varies from yellow to deep red in the fall and can have three-lobed or mitten-shaped leaves.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Sassafras, present in southern Michigan, varies from yellow to deep red in the fall and can have three-lobed or mitten-shaped leaves.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The lift distribution is multi-lobed, which relies on several smaller contributions to lift instead of one large one, which helps avoid sharp pressure jumps.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Other shrubs to consider include rabbitbrush, Apache plume, shrubby cinquefoil, three-lobed sumac and Fremont mahonia.
    — Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • For example the near-Earth asteroids 25142 Itokawa, which was visited by the first Japanese Hayabusa mission in 2005, and 4149 Toutatis that was encountered by China's Chang'e 2 in 2012, are both bi-lobed.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026

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