Example Sentences

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Families with young swimmers can head to Carolina Hemlocks recreation area for the gentle tube run and smooth-rock “butt slides.”

From The Guardian • May 25, 2018

Hemlocks often play critical ecological roles in the forest, harboring insects, spiders, and birds that don’t live on other trees.

From National Geographic • Jan. 30, 2018

Hemlocks, chestnuts and elms, though cultivated by the garden, could not become a dominant presence.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2011

The next morning, as soon as breakfast was over, Mrs. Wharton again ordered the sleigh and drove to "the Hemlocks."

From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins)

"I believe you will be a second Hermit of the Cedars, or the Hemlocks, or the Pines," said she, laughing; "for you are already half as melancholy as your uncle, at times."

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie