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

Wolf had never hunted reindeer, but he knew the scent well, for his mother used to bring him the branches that grow from reindeers’ heads, with the hide hanging off in delicious, chewable tatters.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver