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birch
noun as in cudgel
noun as in rod
noun as in stick
noun as in whip
verb as in thrash
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in thresh
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
I’d been wooed by spring delights—birch saplings rich with new greens, the sighing pines swaying dozens of feet above them.
To my left, through the scratched glass window, I could make out a vast valley below, speckled with birch and aspen trees exploding into vibrant yellows as autumn neared.
Fast-growing birch send nutrients to slower-moving fir trees.
It could be a strip of birch bark or a handful of Doritos—as long as it’s something small, dry, and oily, it should work.
Solid birch wooden legs are dark brown, and a decorative nailhead design is found along the base of the chair.
Bob Dylan even took the Birchers to task in his folk tune “Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.”
But you do not have a 50-foot birch lying across your driveway.
Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.
(At the same time, CPAC also banned the John Birch Society from being a sponsor as well).
It was Birch who took Gilbert and George to China, a trip on which Compston was invited, missed the plane, and came along later.
It is well known in Sweden that when a pine forest is felled, a growth, not of pine but of birch, immediately springs up.
By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.
The walls consisted of trees laid one upon another; and the roof was of birch bark.
In fact, there was not, in all the parish, a more generally unpopular man than Billy Birch.
Billy Birch would not shut up his dog at night, and as for killing him, that was out of the question.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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