branches

Example Sentences

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She parted some creosote branches to reveal a shriveled shrub, just ankle-high.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Today, the tree still stands, its branches shaped by centuries of coastal wind and salt air.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Jonathan pointed to the alders whose branches he had removed.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret