saplings
Example Sentences
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From Sycamore Gap saplings to 'trees of hope'
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Slender saplings rose up, the corners of the sukkah.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
