woody

Example Sentences

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It smells like any other tree—dusty and woody —but I know that deep inside is an intoxicating scent.

From Literature

It smelled of something rich and woody and slightly overpowering: like money, distilled.

From Literature

The results show that recent fire levels are the highest on record, driven by the spread of woody vegetation and increasingly dry soils.

From Science Daily

But a few weeks into its growth cycle it becomes woody and stiff, thorny, unpalatable and, rapidly, enormous.

From The Wall Street Journal

Up from the ground emerged native weeds, flowers, woody brambles.

From Literature