saplings
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The scheme began in 2024 and volunteers have so far restored meadows and created scrub banks to protect saplings.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
But the eighth rat still lay unmoving among the saplings.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
