sapling

The mayor gave each of them a pine sapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

"Ultimately we don't understand it but we would really like the sapling back," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

That syrupy-sweet and shockingly crisp fruit came from an unremarkable sapling that Bedford, then a graduate student, had rescued from the discard pile of a University of Minnesota breeding program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

While Alice sniffed and wiped tears, I carefully bored a hole through the sapling to which the stone and hammer were attached, then slipped the cross stick into the hole half way.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

All of the saplings are international varieties like Hass and Pinkerton.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Over-population of deer means they graze on young plants and tree saplings before they ever have a chance to reach maturity.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

We quickly walked into a bed of knee-high sequoias saplings so thick I couldn’t estimate their number.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

He could no longer hear the water—not the rain or the charging of fins through the sea—only the snapping of flames as they gobbled the ancient trees and tender saplings.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee