How to Use copse in a Sentence

copse

noun

• His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
  — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
• The kid whistles, summoning a horse from a copse of mesquite.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• Nonetheless, thick and silent fog hugged a roadside copse of cedars.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
• 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
• She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
  — Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
• Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
  — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Most days, he can be found outside, smoking and pacing in a copse of trees right next to the hotel entrance.
  — Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• There is a homeless encampment in a little copse of wood where Georgetown starts.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
  — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Suddenly, an enormous whoosh rose from the canyon, and a copse of aspen exploded.
  — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.
  — Jess Thomson, Wired News, 27 Aug. 2025
• The path climbs past copses of mountain hemlocks and red firs, and through alpine meadows dotted with wildflowers in the spring and summer.
  — Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• She’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Aquitaine countryside unfolds in a collage of khaki, tan, and green, dotted with little ponds and copses of trees.
  — Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Its 46 rooms have big picture windows that look onto copses of color-changing trees and cabin vibes from plenty of blonde wood.
  — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Christopher Lloyd, who created a repository of outsized characters, strides across the stage under a copse of soaring spruce.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Smoke envelops a Russian bunker hit by the Ukrainians; the Buhay, hiding near a copse, is somehow spared from bombardment by enemy forces.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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