saplings
Example Sentences
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During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 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
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
“Your space is gone. It’s mine now. Those saplings are mine.”
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
