copse

Example Sentences

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I remember pulling my rental car into the parking lot of a small church tucked away in a copse.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

For years, a neighbor’s copse of sweet gums and oaks would filter the afternoon sun into her dining room.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Around every bend are tiny rewards - a copse of trees with the Olympic rings poking out, a tiny reflecting-pool shrine that exhorts people to “remember here those who gave their lives for peace.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The hulking mass of the Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century church that became the enduring symbol of Christendom, seemed like a basilica to me again, surrounded by a copse of slim, tapered minarets.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams