Example Sentences
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Willows are coppiced — cut regularly to within an inch or two of the base to flush fresh growth — or pollarded, with cuts made higher up on the trunk or branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The trees are pollarded, the shutters are largely drawn, the police tend toward Inspector Clouseau look-alikes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
You can convert a topped tree into a pollarded tree, but this is viable only on young crape myrtles whose trunks are no more than three inches across, and preferably smaller.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
On most mornings in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, elderly Asian women practice tai chi under the pollarded sycamore trees.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2014
They bounce through a string of small green towns where pollarded trees line sleepy canals.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
