tree hugger

Example Sentences

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Make no mistake, however: Abramson was not your typical tree-hugger.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2023

And yet, for years and years, if you betrayed the fact that you cared about this, you were described as a tree-hugger and mocked.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2019

But it is the way these trees are grown that is just as interesting to a gardener and tree-hugger like me.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

A champion of poor immigrants, a critic of capitalism and a tree-hugger who has, meanwhile, done little to revise the church’s social teachings, Pope Francis has something for both camps.

From Economist • Sep. 17, 2015

"I'm no tree-hugger," he says "but Pebble is the wrong mine, in the wrong place".

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2013