How to Use orchard in a Sentence

orchard

noun
  • Or maybe the trees were the remnants of an old orchard.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Ritterspachs’ plans call for 400 trees in the orchard.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • Many of those troops are now camped out in the fields and orchards along the Gaza border.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the orchards, apples lay rotting by the bushel on the ground.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The plane then came to a stop in an orchard and burst into flames.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The wrong weather at the wrong time can doom an orchard.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Or an orchard full of apples, some strewn around the ground?
    — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The blossoming orchard laid waste with a wave of the hand.
    — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The farm has its own orchard with pear and apple trees.
    — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Then in 2005, Gore bought a peach orchard adjacent to the plant.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The trail begins with a line of poems along the edge of a pasture that was once part of the orchard.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • How did the detective solve the mystery at the orchard?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But a lot of the orchard practices took a back seat in recent years.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Enjoy the beautiful view of an orchard made all the more ~dreamy~ by the 8% ABV *wink wink*.
    — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Make your plans with our full list of 21 apple orchards near the Twin Cities.
    — Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Well, head on over to this scenic orchard in Montérégie.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • As the day wears on, the girls’ many small dramas unfold throughout the orchard.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The focal point is the pool, which takes up more than 2,000 square feet and juts out over an olive tree orchard.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There is an orchard of plums, apples, peaches and the like.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • Some gentle orchard and bush fruit notes try to squeak in but are brushed aside.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Not that everyone at the orchard was so ready to move on.
    — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • The cider mill also offers hayrides around the orchard.
    — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Jobs, who had dropped out of Reed, worked at the orchard, helping to produce cider.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Check the orchard map summer through fall to see what’s in season.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • Around him was a small orchard of almond and apricot trees and olive vines.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The orchard is in Chippewa Falls, nearly 200 miles west of Green Bay.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The palate is sweet and creamy, featuring spiced, baked orchard fruits, creamy caramel, and rich roasted agave.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Over time, rather than orchards, the land may support solar panels, beef cattle or wheat.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025

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