woody

Example Sentences

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The results show that recent fire levels are the highest on record, driven by the spread of woody vegetation and increasingly dry soils.

From Science Daily

But a few weeks into its growth cycle it becomes woody and stiff, thorny, unpalatable and, rapidly, enormous.

From The Wall Street Journal

Up from the ground emerged native weeds, flowers, woody brambles.

From Literature

In woody surroundings south of the French capital, Paris-Saclay University's campus provides a fertile training ground for future artificial intelligence experts, whose skills are coveted at home and abroad.

From Barron's

With fewer new trees, the report found that the trunks and branches of dead trees - known as woody biomass - became carbon emitters, rather than carbon absorbers, about 25 years ago.

From BBC