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tree-lined
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tree-lined
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
avenue
▪ It was situated in a wide, tree-lined avenue in what she took to be the smarter part of Richmond.
▪ From Hamsterley village, it is approached through the forest and finally a spectacular tree-lined avenue.
▪ They were walking up a narrow tree-lined avenue that led to the Champs-Elysees.
▪ A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica.
▪ An unattractive, cement-filled track in the morning magically becomes a welcoming tree-lined avenue by mid-afternoon.
street
▪ Their hotel was in a wide tree-lined street in the centre of town, surrounded by pretty cafés, restaurants and boutiques.
▪ Lakes and tree-lined streets dominate the rest of Hanoi, built along the murky Red River.
▪ The town has no real hills and has many pleasant tree-lined streets.
▪ We walked hours and hours along tree-lined streets and riverbanks.
▪ Along the short tree-lined street there are several eighteenth-century three-storey weavers' cottages with the characteristic long windows to the upper-floor workshops.
▪ Mark's Place, a tree-lined street filled with oversized townhouses.
▪ This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ducks have long been a nuisance at the tree-lined park.
▪ Eventually we came to an ancient tree-lined canal with a long-tailed water taxi parked at a dock.
▪ From Hamsterley village, it is approached through the forest and finally a spectacular tree-lined avenue.
▪ His family home has tree-lined grounds, including an ancient mulberry, and the snowdrops are out.
▪ Lakes and tree-lined streets dominate the rest of Hanoi, built along the murky Red River.
▪ Their hotel was in a wide tree-lined street in the centre of town, surrounded by pretty cafés, restaurants and boutiques.
▪ We walked hours and hours along tree-lined streets and riverbanks.

Usage examples of "tree-lined".

Chapter Thirty-eight The city fathers had laid out the plans for Boise City with care--straight streets and square blocks, nestled between the tree-lined river and the rugged foothills.

We were back in the car and heading out on the winding, tree-lined Bowditch driveway.

Farther on, both banks were tree-lined, and, as well as the spears of the yellow iris, by this time long past flowering, knotted figwort was growing beside the water.

He put on the respirator, looked out at the tree-lined, gaslit streets sliding past the car.

We sorted ourselves out in Interhuman while the roller trundled through tree-lined avenues.

Tons and tons of them, all grown in another town in the Kerman region, the tree-lined twelfth-century citadel of Bam.

At Red Willow they turned west and drove on, past the country schoolhouse at Lone Star and across the high open wheatland, and after a while they topped a rise and could see down into the South Platte River valley, wide and tree-lined, the cliffs far away on the other side, with the town laid out below.

Jao guards, then was waved through to a tree-lined boulevard full of deep green shadows and lined by a veritable sea of begonias so that red and pink and white filled the eyes.

The beautiful, tree-lined street is known as Restaurant Row because both sides are lined with trendy eateries that cater to the Broadway theater crowd.

They were leaving the French Quarter now, turning left on the boulevarded and tree-lined Esplanade Avenue, deserted except for the receding taillights of another car disappearing swiftly toward Bayou St.

Korlat rode to where Whiskeyjack had halted beneath the tree-lined crest that marked the beginning of the coppiced parkland, and drew rein alongside him.

It is only a forty-minute flight from London to Schiphol Airport and soon we are checked into our hotel and wandering the tree-lined canals with tall town houses reflected in the water, the compact streets full of bicycles, the sickly-sweet smell of hashish and marijuana drifting from the coffee shops.

He slowly got to his feet, and ducking from one pine to the next, he made his way to the end of the circular drive, and then continued down the tree-lined border of the narrow graveled road.

He went to her and took her hand, and she led him along a cool green tree-lined path.

When the coach landed him at Marlboro, he stepped primly down, adjusted his tall hat, grabbed his box, and set out on foot for home, To his disappointment, no one in Marlboro bothered to congratu late him on having attained the ministry, for in his tall hat no one recognized him, and he reached the tree-lined lane leading to his home without having spoken to anyone, and there he stood in the hot dust, greeting, as he felt, for the last time, this bleak, unkindly home in which generations of Hales had been born, and it seemed to him so marked with love that he bowed his head and wept He was standing in this manner when the younger children spotted him and led the whole family out to welcome him home.