How to Use big tree in a Sentence

big tree

noun
  • There’s a welcome gift in the north west by the big tree.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • The grove is home to about 500 big trees near the southern entrance to the park.
    Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
  • People were parking their cars on the roots of the big trees.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Drives down the right side of 18 will have to deal with a big tree just left of the fairway bunkers.
    Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • Every day in high school under the big tree in front of the school.
    Washington Post, 30 May 2021
  • For one, a big tree helps mitigate the scale of a very big house.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The city is asking residents to find the biggest tree in the city.
    Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In the small town of Baxter, Mike Stephens was awakened when a big tree crashed through the roof of his house.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • There was a big tree near the trailer park, her favorite tree.
    Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Pete kicks at the gravel-and-grass front yard, and wonders where the big tree went.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 June 2022
  • There are a lot of good reasons to plant smaller trees among big trees.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
  • But the big tree will have to fend off the slings and arrows of its urban location for a while longer.
    New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • The vacant lot just north of the home Walker has lived in for 21 years has two big trees — a mango tree and a pine tree.
    Joe Cavaretta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Considered one of the world’s largest organisms, this big tree isn’t out of the woods yet.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In summer the cemetery smells of cut grass under a high sun, and the leaves of that big tree whisper in the stillness.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Soon lost, the despondent trio chance upon a big tree with a strange door high up in its trunk.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
    Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The zoo is free, and with its big trees and exuberant flowers, feels more like a park.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Once railroads snaked their way into the mountains in the late 1800s, the big trees were quickly plundered.
    Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • And now seven more of the 13 oldest trees, and five of the six biggest trees, have also died, the researchers report.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2018
  • But Paul’s story continues amid carvings and big trees on the Trail of Tall Tales.
    Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Sperry, who lives in a pecan forest, said that lightning strikes are the most common cause of big tree loss.
    Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020
  • Why would someone go through the trouble to register a big tree?
    Courtney McGee, baltimoresun.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Aldred climbed his first big tree, a sequoia in England’s New Forest, at the age of 16 with a couple of friends.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • Like, guys: there's a talking raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper and a big tree that repeats the same line over and over voiced by Vin Diesel.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 May 2022
  • The biggest tree in his neighborhood fell through the roof of his Orlando home during a storm in 2004.
    Roger Simmons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2018
  • Some of the best spots are under big trees, down narrow alleyways, or next to tall buildings.
    Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
  • These healthy, bigger trees already have the dense canopy that provides shade and privacy.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • If there's two big trees invariably sooner or later there's gonna be a little tree.
    Stephen Kruschwitz, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2018
  • After two hours of searching, Jares found his friend's truck parked under a big tree that caused it to be hidden from the search helicopter.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 13 Dec. 2017

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