saplings
Example Sentences
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During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 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
As we pushed our way through, saplings appeared on all sides, hidden until we came within a few feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Baimedov, who has become an amateur botanist, tends to about 15,000 saplings, which are aimed at forming a green wall against the sand.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
She steered us toward a clearing in a grove of cottonwoods and elms, some not much bigger than saplings.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
