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During a trip to Armenia last year, an intense thunderstorm broke out while the team was hiking above the tree line and leaders had to find a way to get hundreds of people off the mountain as fast as possible.—Brit Morse, Fortune, 19 July 2025 On a hill to our right, a group of giraffes peeked up over the tree line.—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025 Video from the site appeared to show the jet disappear below the tree line, which was followed seconds later by a ball of fire and a thick plume of gray smoke.—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 13 June 2025 At Trump’s West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent scoping out the area one or two holes ahead of him saw the muzzle of an AK-47-style weapon pointing out of the tree line on the perimeter of the course.—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for tree line
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