How to Use sapling in a Sentence

sapling

noun

• The sergeant lifts the sapling from the pot and kneels down.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2017
• The blast was strong enough to shake sapling trees blocks away.
  — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 17 June 2019
• The royal pair were due to plant a new sapling next to the old tree.
  — Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
• And yet new saplings are pushing out of the ground all over the state.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• The sapling that sprouted from the stump now stands about 60 feet.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• In a couple of years, once the oak saplings are large enough, the tubes will be removed.
  — Jessica Peralta, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The two couples will also plant a sapling tree on the South Lawn that is a gift from the Macrons.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• The team has amassed 17 billion seeds and thousands of tree saplings.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The result was the loss of all the saplings and the end of the dream of living in beautiful Nordhoff.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• There will be tree plantings and cleanup in the park, as well as free tree saplings to take home.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Tiny, woolly white bumps the size of sesame seeds coat the sapling’s spindly branches.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
• Oh, yes, and every attendee gets a sapling, a tree-to-be.
  — Sandy Guerra-Cline, star-telegram, 25 Apr. 2018
• The saplings sat untouched in his yard, still wrapped in plastic.
  — Paula Moura, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
• The boys horsed around with a sapling, pulling on its branches and laughing in the sunlight.
  — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• The brave little sapling pushing up through a crack in the pavement.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• His ax handle is a 17-foot-long tree sapling with all of the bark removed.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
• The weight of the moisture content in the snow broke many limbs out of my large pines, and snapped my ten-foot saplings in two.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Bruins’ saplings from that 2017 class have yet to bear NHL fruit, but things are promising.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• The vines, brambles and saplings growing where fields and pastures once stood pull the piles of stones apart.
  — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• Our 2-year-old lemon sapling has its leaves turning white and the tip is dying.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• Years ago, saplings used to be cleaned of all soil after digging and were shipped bare-root.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 20 Dec. 2017
• Secure the long end of the wire with a few loops around a sapling beside the trail or to a stout stick driven into the ground.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 5 June 2020
• Cover your saplings in mesh or netting to keep the insects out.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• According to the city, the saplings cannot be planted on parkways.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Giant hogweed doesn't grow to 14 feet overnight; the seedlings and saplings start out much smaller.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2018
• In a ring surrounding the base of cedar stump in Carmanah, saplings have begun to sprout.
  — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• A few feet up the ridge, the foresters exited the vehicle and crunched through the woods, searching for small oak saplings.
  — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
• Two males were observed removing a sapling tree from the ground.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• Now those forests are mostly green, with the crowns of red spruce peeking out of the canopy and saplings thriving below.
  — Lisa Rathke, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• But those trees are still slender saplings, each throwing enough shade for maybe a chihuahua.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024