Foliage has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The trees have exuberant foliage. | |
| 2. | In the country, the colors of the sky and of the foliage are entirely different from those seen in the city. | |
| 3. | The fawn blended seamlessly into the foliage. | |
| 4. | Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. | |
| 5. | The foliage is very dense. | |
| 6. | With these words he sprang like a young nightingale among the myrtles, and climbing from bough to bough ascended through the foliage to the summit of a tree. I observed wings upon his shoulders, and between them a bow and arrows, but to my great astonishment, a moment afterwards I could see neither him nor them. | |
| 7. | Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage. | |
| 8. | Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear. | |
| 9. | Within the palace, open to the day, / there stood a massive altar. Overhead, / with drooping boughs, a venerable bay / its shadowy foliage o'er the home-gods spread. | |
| 10. | Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves. |