needles
Example Sentences
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Hanson began noting tufts of pine needles poking out of the waist-high brush around us.
From Los Angeles Times
The saplings just now poking their needles into the sunlight, and hundreds more that we would only be able to be seen on our hands and knees, will grow and propagate, he said.
From Los Angeles Times
We examined the needles and bark of each tree, being careful not to pick out a whitebark pine, Pacific yew or Western white pine—threatened or rare species.
Yet many people with excess weight don’t take the shots due to cost, spotty insurance coverage and fear of needles.
The soil is thin, sandy and gravelly and stands of Ponderosa pine trees are thick — creating a nearly permanent canopy of shade over a carpet of acidic and toxic needles not conducive for growing plants or feeding livestock.
From Los Angeles Times
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