Example Sentences

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Families with young swimmers can head to Carolina Hemlocks recreation area for the gentle tube run and smooth-rock “butt slides.”

From The Guardian • May 25, 2018

Hemlocks often play critical ecological roles in the forest, harboring insects, spiders, and birds that don’t live on other trees.

From National Geographic • Jan. 30, 2018

Hemlocks, chestnuts and elms, though cultivated by the garden, could not become a dominant presence.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2011

I made my headquarters at Ed Bennett's woodland hostelry, "Under the Hemlocks."

From Woodcraft by Sears, George Washington

The scenery became more rigidly arctic, the Dwarf Pines and Hemlocks disappeared, and the stream was bordered with icicles.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John