How to Use deadfall in a Sentence

deadfall

noun

• The park is filled with large sticks and deadfall arranged into lean-tos and other makeshift public art.
  — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2025
• Look for deadfall before pitching the Gatewood Cape, so as best to avoid being impaled by the top half of a tree.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside, 2 Sep. 2025
• Scout Island, on the north side of the park, is particularly riven through with odd trails and random stick deadfalls.
  — Outside, 17 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, the entire West was on fire, trails already choked with deadfall from decades-ago blazes even as new ones torched millions more acres every season.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
• After spending the morning clearing deadfall, the crew was returning to their vehicles at the pace of the creeper machine, a mini excavator that can plow a new path through difficult terrain.
  — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025