Example Sentences

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When the wind blows hard, and their branches and boughs thrash and creak, I am convinced they will topple over and cleave my home in twain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Desert night lizards sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2024

They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

Lost, we crawled under a sweep of pine boughs, and I curled myself around my sister, who was so much smaller.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker