How to use "palms" in a sentence

As Vivienne reached the back of the house, the crescent moon slid out from behind one of the few thin clouds, like a scimitar being drawn from a scabbard, and the pale shadows of palms and melaleucas shivered on the lunar-silvered concrete patio.

Tina got up from the bed, went to the window, and gazed at the quiet street, the palms, the olive trees.