Example Sentences

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Seabirds probably avoid nesting in coconut palms, Young says, because of their branchless trunks, relatively small canopies, and swaying fronds.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 27, 2020

She imagines herself in a future alongside those children — an “army of mutants,” their minds barren, branchless trees.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2020

The new banks’ branchless, digital proposition means they benefit from far lower costs.

From Reuters • Dec. 21, 2017

Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

Blazing lights shone down from the top of huge, branchless trees.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth