branches off
Example Sentences
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Men hacked loose branches off trees and piled them to be taken away, for fear they would become projectiles capable of claiming life or limb.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
In such a tree, a root branches off to so-called child nodes that are connected by edges.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
Mark Schultz, its director, already can imagine some of the work ahead, refinding and marking research plots, replacing burned cables and destroyed instruments, clearing fallen trees and branches off trails and roads.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2023
“The roughly 300 people still here — they’re going nowhere,” he said as he sauntered back to a playground to watch a man silently stripping branches off a tree limb with a small ax.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2022
Then one by one Lorenzo and I hack branches off till the tree is pretty pelón.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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