deadwood

Example Sentences

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Over time, carbon becomes locked in place as sediments build up and deadwood accumulates in beaver-created wetlands.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

He will reshape the culture, clear out the deadwood and refine the focus on competition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

West: A century of firefighting, elimination of Indigenous burning, logging of large fire-resistant trees, and other management practices that allowed small trees, undergrowth and deadwood to choke forests.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Through photosynthesis, carbon transforms into biomass, which eventually dies and becomes leaf litter or deadwood.

From National Geographic • Oct. 12, 2023

He sets to work pruning the deadwood like a sculptor.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson