branches

Example Sentences

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A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Queues had also been building up outside Swatch's branches internationally, including in New York where watch enthusiasts had been camping for a week, with reports that some had become unwell during the wait.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

The earliest tetrapods, called stem tetrapods, eventually split into two major branches.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

They seemed to come from everywhere: down from the branches of the bur oak tree, from out of the underbrush, and everywhere else.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls