copse

Example Sentences

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In a final act of cruelty, they dumped Mr. Kryvenko’s body in a small copse across the street.

From New York Times

The plot, which apparently had not been worked for a while, was covered with copses of trees amid waist-high grass and was bisected by a creek in a ravine.

From New York Times

On its top you can see, on clear days, bristling like a peeved hedgehog, a costly copse of transmitters for Southern California TV and FM radio stations and some law enforcement agencies’ communications.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

From New York Times