How to Use greening in a Sentence

greening

noun
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  • Two years ago, Hurricane Ian pummeled trees already weakened by a virulent and incurable disease called citrus greening.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Before the greening of Greenville, the Irish holiday was marked with balls and tea parties.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The boards are nailed in place to keep the strangers out — in case gawkers don’t heed the No Trespass signs affixed to the front of the home and to the trunks of greening trees surrounding it.
    — Chris Graves, Cincinnati.com, 15 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The greening includes the stadium and nearby Lake Park.
    — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Measures like a box tax that funds research about citrus greening may help.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the greening of Gitmo, as this base is known, comes with a particular challenge.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 is a disease that causes trees to produce less fruit that is smaller in size.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The insects that cause greening, which is incurable, came to Florida in 1998 and threaten more groves each year.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Brazil’s larger groves and different practices have helped control the spread of greening.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The nitrogen should be a fast-release source so that the impact will include enhancing the lawns cold tolerance and in speeding up the greening of the lawn in the spring.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The moss growth is still modest compared to what’s happening in the Arctic, where a large-scale greening trend has even been captured by satellite.
    — Chris Mooney, The Denver Post, 18 May 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 fleet purchase also sets a high-water mark for corporate fleet greening.
    — Wired, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Still, across much of the forest, new shoots of redwoods and other trees have begun to poke through the moonscape, offering a glimpse of the greening that is sure to accelerate.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Yara is taking a first step toward greening that process with a pilot plant, set to open in 2019, that will sit next to the existing Pilbara factory.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • Those insects were detected in Baldwin County in 2008, but no signs of the greening disease were confirmed.
    — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 21 June 2017
  • To discover where the conservancy focuses its greening of America — which has some of the oldest and tallest trees on Earth — go to this map.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But even that titanic greening will not be enough to pull CO2 below 400 ppm ever again, Keeling suspects.
    — David Biello, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2016
  • Thawing permafrost is the aspect of Arctic greening that concerns scientists the most.
    — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Spread by invasive tree lice, greening has plagued Florida’s groves since it was first detected there in 2005.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The creation of a more familiar atmosphere required a second revolution: the greening of a new Earthly domain.
    — Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
  • Webster, the researcher, said there is evidence that cleaning and greening projects, and addressing neighborhood blight, have public safety benefits.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024

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