leafless

Example Sentences

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The morning frost glistens, and—in a clever device—the low sun glimmers through a row of unseen, leafless trees behind the artist, casting crisscrossing, rhythmic shadows on the furrows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

In Denver, I detected a similar attitude in Terri Landers, another 69-year-old, who was with her daughter, Morgan Wiener, under the shade of leafless branches near the rally.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2025

The honks and squawks of ibises and louries - shuffling silhouettes in the leafless trees.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023

Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront, boats in the harbor were scorched and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of charred trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr