Example Sentences

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For Casaus, this often involves stacking visually distinct levels of, say, prickly cactuses and wispy flowering bushes, or branchy ornamental trees and soft grasses, against a balustrade or facade.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2019

"In neurology, there is the concept of the final common pathway: a vast, branchy tree of nerves with impulses flowing down into a narrow trunk."

From Time Magazine Archive

He closed the spout and raised the lantern to inspect the branchy walls of the chaha’oh.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

They saw snakes, pigtails, branchy, forked things that looked like the letter Y, and they noticed squiggles like a small g, and bends like the letter U, and loopy 6s.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Well, they had been riding home cheerfully, all chattering and bloomy and branchy, when Sir Meliagrance had leaped up at their feet, in an ambush.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White