How to Use orchard in a Sentence

orchard

noun
  • The next stop was the peach orchard.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Put your haul from the orchard to good use.
    — Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At least one of his peach orchards had once grown walnuts.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The plane then came to a stop in an orchard and burst into flames.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Some gentle orchard and bush fruit notes try to squeak in but are brushed aside.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The name takes its name from the orchards of peaches, or pavies that once grew there.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • By day’s end in the orchard, her hands were raw, her legs were bruised and her arms were scratched.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
  • Don’t use mulch made from black walnut wood, leaves, or nuts near your orchard.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So were their goats, and the lemon and fig orchards that had taken years to bear fruit.
    — Euan Ward, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • But a lot of the orchard practices took a back seat in recent years.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Toy built a grocery store on the land and planted a pecan orchard.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In any case have a look here for control tactics in the home orchard.
    — oregonlive, 7 June 2020
  • Stop in the sales barn before heading to the orchard.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the orchards, apples lay rotting by the bushel on the ground.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Around him was a small orchard of almond and apricot trees and olive vines.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Check the orchard map summer through fall to see what’s in season.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • Crews battled to keep the flames away from orchards and farms in the rural area.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The land was, and some still is, an old, overgrown apple orchard.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Sanders says this could have caused widespread damage to the orchards.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Look no further than your local farm or orchard and grab a friend to join in on the fun.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Want to go apple picking through vast orchards?
    — Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
  • One orchard is set up for customers to come in, browse the rows and pick their own apples.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • For the last Jew to grow them now says, to cut the orchard down would be to cut out my heart.
    — Philip Metres, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Many of those troops are now camped out in the fields and orchards along the Gaza border.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The scent of olive orchards and sea salt fill the air, the whizz of our tires the only soundtrack.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • People who own orchards rarely crave apples.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Tickets include a hayride to the orchard and a half peck bag to fill with juicy apples.
    — Lorenza Medley, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Out the left window, a tall white grave marker sat in the middle of a pecan orchard.
    — Wright Thompson, National Geographic, 1 June 2020
  • Only part of the orchard had been pruned when Sarb Johl called off the job.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • As the day wears on, the girls’ many small dramas unfold throughout the orchard.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022

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