saplings

Example Sentences

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Jeff Curtis, the society’s arborist, removed the sapling’s giant predecessor last year.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2011

Babulya ran her wrinkled hand over the corner post closest to her, and the sapling’s leaves shifted toward her.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

The club had been a sapling, and the sapling's roots had grown about and circled with a splendid grip a lump of native flint.

From Gulliver of Mars by Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden

Her lithe, brown curve Is like a sapling's sway and swerve Before the spring wind.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

For as the sapling's sturdy stalk, Whose double twist is crossly strain'd, Such is thy fortune—sure to baulk At this extreme what there was gain'd.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles