hazel

Example Sentences

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Authorities said that Coughran — who they described as a 6-foot-2, 150-pound white man with brown hair and hazel eyes — may have been wearing khaki shorts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Their findings show that temperate woodland species, including oak, elm, and hazel, were present much earlier than suggested by pollen records from Britain.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

The missile, named after the Russian word for hazel tree, was first fired on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro in 2024.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

For years, it was easy to forget that we used to be a woodland nation: around 6,000 years ago untouched swathes of oak, hazel, birch and pine blanketed an estimated 75% of the UK.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

He couldn’t see anything through the tangle of hazel and willowherb, but he knew that the buck was in there, because Wolf knew it, and Torak had learned to trust Wolf.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver