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

Then he walks, silently and purposefully, to a copse of narrow trees.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022

The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams