sapling

Example Sentences

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That syrupy-sweet and shockingly crisp fruit came from an unremarkable sapling that Bedford, then a graduate student, had rescued from the discard pile of a University of Minnesota breeding program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

It was brought from Grenada to south-west London as a sapling in the 1980s by one of the street's residents, Marline Anderson, who died in June.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

The charity invited organisations or individuals to bid for a sapling and had nearly 500 applications.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Currently, we put trees last, and if it gets in the way of cabling or pipes, we remove the tree or replace it with a sapling.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

I usually came home at night with the nuthatch that roosted in a nearby sapling.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George