be felled
Example Sentences
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The senior officials said that when the Japanese learned that some of the trees would be felled due to the construction work, they immediately offered to provide saplings when the time was right.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
The green focus is on more than 100, century-old gingko trees, 18 of which seem sure to be felled in the redevelopment.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
Natural History also hired Reed Hilderbrand, the landscape architecture firm, to preserve some of the trees that, in early expansion plans, were likely to be felled, and to add more seating.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
It added the tree was set to be felled due to its bad health but "nature beat us there".
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2023
“Trees can be felled for rams if rams are required. Amolf Karstark writes that fewer than fifty men remain at the Dreadfort, half of them servants. A strong castle weakly held is weak.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
