saplings

Example Sentences

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Over-population of deer means they graze on young plants and tree saplings before they ever have a chance to reach maturity.

From BBC • May 21, 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

“Most of the fire area is like this, where it would have killed a few of the seedlings and saplings but basically almost nothing else,” Hanson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

Baimedov, who has become an amateur botanist, tends to about 15,000 saplings, which are aimed at forming a green wall against the sand.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

Around a stump, over a mound of leaves, past a cedar tree—there were the saplings, and there lay the rat, still on his side.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien