tree
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.
See Examples For:
She didn’t know what was burning—perhaps a tree or a truck, she thought—but she assumed it would be put out quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
As of Thursday, the mural was repainted, with Hellmann adding a new olive tree branch to the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Their results showed that deeply lobed leaves evolved independently several times in separate branches of the Scalesia family tree.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The couple were married in 2019 and had a tree removal company called TRS Tree Management.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
You’d find it nailed to a tree or posted on the church door or sent to the Rockville newspaper.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
![]()
Using DNA taken from blood cells, the researchers created genetic 'family trees'.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
In 2006, the state expanded fire-safe landscaping rules that require property owners to create separation between trees and shrubs and remove dead vegetation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"Here, there are only trees... and when you see all that has burned, it's a catastrophe."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The property will have a tasting room and tables among the trees, on platforms between six and 30 feet off the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Light—orange, red, and even purple—streams through trees, across the open meadow.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
![]()
The cattle, which were tracked from June to August over two years, had access to 625 acres of grasslands and treed areas ranging in elevation from 600 to 2,028 feet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Some farmers positioned portable wind breaks and used treed areas to protect their herds from potentially deadly winds, said Karin Schmid, beef production and extension lead at the Alberta Beef Producers industry group.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
We passed only four other cars as the winding two-lane road took us through the scenic Upper Yakima River Canyon, with farms and rolling pastureland, treed areas and rocky cliff faces.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
Along with losing the coconuts, I had given up my calf, and I wasn’t any closer to having my pony and .22 than I was the day Rowdy treed the first monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
![]()
By 10 a.m. the dogs didn’t appear any closer to treeing whatever it was they were chasing.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Well-fed raccoons lay trails to nearby trees, which the hounds are allowed to bark up only briefly to minimize sight treeing.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
He went to work then, trailing and treeing the squirrels that Little Arliss was scaring up off the ground.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
![]()
Went hunting on the Neck, and visited the plantation there, and killed a fox after treeing it three times and chasing it three hours.
From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)