How to Use tree of life in a Sentence

tree of life

noun phrase
  • It was rooted in our normal tree of life.
    — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Other verses connect knowledge and a tree of life.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • The finding points to a way that animals across the tree of life can evolve new behaviors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The tree of life symbolism had a long history in the region.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • In the center of the Garden of Eden were the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This one—which is more than half off—features a gorgeous tree of life engraving on both sides and gold aluminum tubes.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 6 May 2024
  • In that sense, beetles are a microcosm of the tree of life, McKenna says.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Two trees These two trees, especially the tree of life, have long raised questions for scholars.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • Researchers are starting to find similar sleep states across many branches of the animal tree of life.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Still, researchers are starting to find similar sleep states across many branches of the animal tree of life.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • On the universal tree of life, all eukaryotic life falls on exactly one branch.
    — Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
  • If ctenophores branched off before sponges in the tree of life, that suggests one of two scenarios for neuron evolution.
    — Cara Giovanetti, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2024
  • By looking across the tree of life, researchers can see which DNA regions have changed and which ones haven’t.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Conditions on Earth shift over geologic time, and those forces inevitably lead to some dead ends on the tree of life.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
  • Once everything has been cataloged, scientists can study where these animals fit on the tree of life.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Losing them would mean losing two especially beautiful branches on the tree of life.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
  • His woven serpent wraps around the store’s central atrium from the main floor, with the tree of life sprouting under and rising to the ceiling.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Just like the tree of life could have turned out completely different, the tree of laws of physics could have turned out to be completely different.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
  • Snakes may be quick to evolve into new forms, but people could be haphazardly pruning those buds and branches off the tree of life before they’ve even been spotted.
    — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This metal fireplace screen, $109 at Amazon, features a detailed tree of life design at the front.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Native Americans in the area call the rot-resistant cedar the tree of life and once used it to make everything from canoes to baskets.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Humans did not consume the tree of life, however, creating a distinction between them and the divine.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • This indicates that light production may give organisms from across the tree of life a fitness advantage that improves their chances of survival.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Some of these passages in Proverbs use the imagery of a tree of life as a positive contrast to sickness, languishing or broken spirits.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • In the past half century, scientists have made significant strides in accurately mapping the tree of life.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • The contrast of the tree of life and the tree of death is beautifully expressed in Yeats’s poem The Two Trees.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • And really kicked off the idea of the tree of life as both a[n] intellectual construct and an empirical area — a thing to discover.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Wandering beyond the community’s gates, Art discovers a tree of life, the fruit of which briefly and poignantly restores his youth.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
  • The arrogance wasn’t hers alone; many people have tried to assign the Tully monster a place in the tree of life since it was first discovered 70 years ago.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2025
  • The tree of life does not reappear until the end of the Eden story, when God expels Adam and Eve to prevent them from eating it.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023

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