spinneys
- plural of spinney.
Example Sentences
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The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
By the way, Charley, Leathrum says they are hatching plenty of pheasants: the spinneys will be full this season; and I want you to have some good shooting.
From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville
It had many little woods and spinneys, and no watercourses.
From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold
In the distance, a low range of hills, irregularly wooded; then a river; then woods and spinneys; then vineyards—boundless vineyards which climbed in varying slopes out of the valley almost to our feet.
From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold
Moreover he starts on an important journey to-morrow and would propose a very brief encounter with you at dawn, in one of the spinneys of the Park.
From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
