saplings
Example Sentences
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From Sycamore Gap saplings to 'trees of hope'
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
She passed young saplings clustering around the bases of the tallest trees like children surrounding their mother.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
