How to Use copse in a Sentence

copse

noun

• It was carved into a copse of trees, but today there is no trace, not even a corpse of the court.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2019
• The kid whistles, summoning a horse from a copse of mesquite.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• There are no horses now, only the wind crashing through the long grass, pulling leaves from a copse of trees that grows along a ravine.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• Nonetheless, thick and silent fog hugged a roadside copse of cedars.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
• In a small copse of trees near the street in front of the nursing home, a large cargo van had smashed down on top of the trees, breaking what branches the wind had spared.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2021
• It’s equal parts funny and fantastic to see a mech awkwardly trying to blend in with a copse of 50 ft.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 June 2017
• There is a homeless encampment in a little copse of wood where Georgetown starts.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Turlhanger’s Wood slept to the north, Chestnut Wood to the south, fallow fields and the occasional copse in between.
  — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Suddenly, an enormous whoosh rose from the canyon, and a copse of aspen exploded.
  — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• In a copse of trees on the southeastern side of the island, the boys found a 13-foot-wide depression surrounded by loose soil and young trees—signs the ground had been disturbed.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• Inside a copse of trees, a buffalo, the testiest and most unpredictable animal in the bush, rustled a branch.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2019
• At the heart of La Quinta, the main lawn is home to 1920s Spanish Revival bungalows scattered around a central waterfall in a copse.
  — John Oseid, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• In Waveland, Zeta’s winds pried the metal roof straight off Ingrid Carambat’s home, throwing it more than a hundred feet into a copse of trees.
  — Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• Readers note possible clues—a dog tussles with an old navy-blue body-warmer found in a copse of trees—of which the book’s characters remain oblivious.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• There is a hush as the field sets off at a lick, disappearing briefly behind a copse before emerging to climb to the high point of the course ahead of a sweeping downhill right-hander into the final straight.
  — Rob Hodgetts At Longchamp, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• Some of the tanks, covered in webbing, hid in a copse, about as inconspicuously as is possible for a 50-tonne vehicle.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• In one of the more remarkable lidar finds, Gheyle identified traces of where a small group of Allied soldiers made camp for the night, including the protective sandbags around the tents, in a copse of trees some seven miles behind the front.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• Christopher Lloyd, who created a repository of outsized characters, strides across the stage under a copse of soaring spruce.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• The film loops continually back to Goldsworthy’s home base in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and, in particular, to a narrow riverway surrounded by a copse of trees.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The bluebells arrive, like an iridescent blue carpet below, spreading along hedgerows, suddenly swamping forests and copses, emerging out of the rotten, sodden leaves of last autumn.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, just out of sight through a copse of trees, a first-grade class sat under a white tent listening to their teacher explain what Earth Day is, and how everyone has a responsibility to protect Mother Nature.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• The occasional low tower of a Norman church, or peaked gable roof of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, poked out from behind huddled green copses, and wildflowers were growing in the gravel between the train tracks.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• It is punctuated by white plantation-style wood bungalows and yards made colorful with heaps of bougainvillea, stands of lobster-claw heliconia, and copses of banana and papaya trees.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, ELLE Decor, 12 July 2010
• Even though many of us are still visibly attenuated from the Holotropic Breathwork, we are immediately shunted outside and told to walk toward a copse of distant trees, for what activity, exactly, the facilitators will not say.
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019

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