How to Use willow in a Sentence

willow

noun

• The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• Close to midday, the group emerged from the wash and walked up a dirt trail above the tamarisk and willow trees.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• There is a slight bend here, as the river moves around a willow.
  — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
• There is good base snow that covers most of the willows.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2018
• Then the arms and legs bud out like willow catkins and the spine begins to straighten.
  — Lori Vogt Rosone, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Shannon Sessions has a seat in left field, in the shade of a willow.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
• Cut a handful of 8- to 10-inch-long willow stems and remove the leaves.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• After heavy snowfalls, the birds will feed on the buds that poke through the snow on taller willows.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2020
• The biggest attraction when the park is lit is the large willow tree at the center of the park.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• Then as now, the swampy Rhône river delta was a source of the willow plant used to make wicker items.
  — Laura May Todd Yvan Moreau, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• She is surrounded by the gold leaves of birch and willow trees.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• For the past two years, Christy has cleared brush and poison ivy, and planted small firs and willows.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
• Out of the willows burst a snowshoe rabbit, going like the wind.
  — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
• After the fire, the hills were blackened with the skeletons of bushes and willows.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• The black stumps of willow bushes jutted out of the barren ground.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• That has allowed moose their willows and caribou their lichen, as well as the space to breed and move around.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• Many were perched in willow trees along a creek bank, nipping buds off the trees for breakfast.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
• Telling players to ‘lay the willow on that onion,’ or ‘hit the apple out of the orchard,’ is standard.
  — Gregory Harutunian, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2021
• The rope, which Kristen had tied off to a broomstick willow, tightened and held the jerk of the boat, heavy as a walrus.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
• Granny decided to have someone trim the branches of the dozen willows that stood around the well pond.
  — Lu Yang, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Add exercise to that; Hilton keeps her willow physique with runs and gym work.
  — Harriet Howard Heithaus, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• The females shifted from lichen to eat shrub leaves (like willow) in June and July.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2022
• Aspirin, made from the bark of willow trees, had been used to treat pain for millennia.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 17 Oct. 2020
• This plant is in the same family as the willow trees and shrubs growing in our landscapes.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2022
• On willow trees, bright green shoots emerged against a background of blackened bark.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
• My camera was in my pack, stowed under a willow bush some 20 yards away.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• Blowdown spruce sieved the current, and the willows on the gravel bars were beginning to turn.
  — Peter Heller, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2020
• Between March and May, the willow is sorted by variety and size and left to dry.
  — Deborah Needleman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• In the end, Higdon returns to a game of hide-and-seek that’s both playful and mournful, with strings that sag like willows and a low mist of returning/departing chimes.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• Willow branches: Incorporate willow branches and scrubs to give your home a spooky but fall feel.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024