Example Sentences

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He uses hand clippers to trim back the plants trying to grow outside the lawn borders, and replants those cuttings to fill in areas that are looking thin.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

One small business in East Lothian, run by a 14-year-old boy and his dad, hire trees to local customers and then replants them in early January.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2022

Mayfield doesn’t merely reuse wood; she, symbolically at least, replants it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

I talked to a farmer at the farmers market and he said he always pulls the plants and replants and he had no idea what would grow.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2021

A boy feeds me with armfuls of newly-dug-up plants, two men are digging-in the cooling cow-dung at the farther end, and another carries away the divided plants tray by tray, and carefully replants them.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude