glade
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Now that she’s an animal, she struggles to learn why the others have departed the glade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
In a woodland glade, in dappled sunshine, Sharron and Glen Markey are arm-in-arm beside the tree they planted in memory of their beloved 17-year-old daughter, Helena, their only child.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
Once a thick forest with rolls stacked five high to the ceiling, it is now a small glade as stock runs low.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
We rumbled up out of the amphitheater just before sunset and pulled into a glade near a Maasai village.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
At first their choice seemed to be good: they got along at a fair speed, though whenever they got a glimpse of the sun in an open glade they seemed unaccountably to have veered eastwards.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Across the UK, the ants have declined due to habitat loss, woodland fragmentation and changes in land management that have reduced the sunny woodland edges and glades they rely on.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
What if we let some beavers chop down a few trees, creating little glades of open sky next to our ponds?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
Genetic analyses indicate the pythons that live in the glades are all closely related.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
They went up to the small munching woodman, who did not seem to have seen them, and asked him where the glades were trading to.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
