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

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

Though Lawrence’s door-to-door sorties against tree-hugger pieties seemed lonely and courageous to Mandy’s mother, what took place was a legal contest between a tiny township and a transnational corporation.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2011