sapling

Example Sentences

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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

The charity invited organisations or individuals to bid for a sapling and had nearly 500 applications.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Currently, we put trees last, and if it gets in the way of cabling or pipes, we remove the tree or replace it with a sapling.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

As part of this Trees of Hope initiative, Henshaw Church of England Primary School in Hexham, which is closest to the Sycamore Gap, and all 15 UK national parks will receive a sapling.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

And he climbed to it, and saw that out of the very edge of the snow there sprang a sapling tree no more than three foot high.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien