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• It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.From the entry chop
• A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.From the entry compare
• The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.From the entry barker
• He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.2016, Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives. From the entry dead-center
• It was a bo’dark sapling I had found in my travels.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 17. From the entry bodark
• They also planted bushes and constructed trellis works of bamboo saplings to cover exposed portions of roads.2009, John Darrell Sherwood, “Air Operations in Laos”, in Nixon’s Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968–1972 (The U.S. Navy and the…. From the entry trellis work
• A tower is erected from trees and saplings bound by vines.2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry land diving
• To make a wetu, the Wampanoag set poles made from cedar saplings into the ground.2003, Janet Riehecky, The Wampanoag: The People of the First Light, page 13. From the entry wetu
• I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 255. From the entry bloodwood
• Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark.1922, Appalachian Mountain Club, The A.M.C. White Mountain Guide: A Guide to Trails in the Mountains. From the entry artifice
• Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North. From the entry acrost
• It was a new humpy of bark and saplings, quaintly impressive of white man’s defiance of the wild.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 79. From the entry humpy
• An HS2 'receptor site' for trans-located trees, new saplings and coppiced tree stumps has been established on the eastern side of Cubbington Wood.2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 45, photo caption. From the entry coppiced
• The floors are joisted with sapling tree trunks, and the flooring itself is made of bark, split and pounded flat into strips.2001, David Pickell, Between the Tides: A Fascinating Journey Among the Kamoro of New Guinea, revised edition, Hong Kong: Periplus…. From the entry joist
• Hazel and ash saplings make good switches, and there are many of these by the roadside, spraying like the forks of a fan.1950, Alison Uttley, Buckinghamshire, page 5. From the entry edder
• I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward.2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 37. From the entry Abenaki
• The hillside, lined with a coating of wet leaves ready to toboggan her down the slope, made her grateful for a few saplings that provided handholds.2006, Nita Hughes, The Cathar Legacy. From the entry toboggan
• A man with four children crowding like saplings around him whistles to wake up the elephant seal who has hulked his impossible body onto the beach.1994, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other Poems, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry hulk
• With the hand-ax Calem slashed down some saplings and fashioned a pair of half-shelters for them, using his catch-rope to lash the poles together and thatching each with leafy slashings.1993, Theodore V. Olsen, Canyon of the Gun and Haven of the Hunted, page 7. From the entry catch-rope

Meaning of sapling

1. noun A young tree, larger than a seedling.
2. noun A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.

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Questions about sapling in a sentence

How do you use sapling in a sentence?

Sapling is used as a noun. For example: “It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.”

What is a short sentence with sapling?

“A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.”

What does sapling mean?

Sapling means a young tree, larger than a seedling.