leafless

Example Sentences

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Looking up, we discover that these are the naked trunks of trees, their reedy, leafless tops scraping against a gray sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 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

Instead, the episode mimics the leafless branch in the poem Lady Mariko dictated before her death.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

The leafless Hockney tree, standing alone in a field beneath a pale blue sky and painted in bristling linear hues of brown, green, orange and pink, looks quite at home.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Crazy Horse took his warriors to a thick stand of leafless bushes.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III