How to Use sapling in a Sentence

sapling

noun

• The blast was strong enough to shake sapling trees blocks away.
  — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 17 June 2019
• And yet new saplings are pushing out of the ground all over the state.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• The royal pair were due to plant a new sapling next to the old tree.
  — Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
• The sapling that sprouted from the stump now stands about 60 feet.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The saplings sat untouched in his yard, still wrapped in plastic.
  — Paula Moura, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
• 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
• In a couple of years, once the oak saplings are large enough, the tubes will be removed.
  — Jessica Peralta, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Cover your saplings in mesh or netting to keep the insects out.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• Years ago, saplings used to be cleaned of all soil after digging and were shipped bare-root.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 20 Dec. 2017
• The brave little sapling pushing up through a crack in the pavement.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• Clippings from Stumpy were saved, and the saplings are doing well.
  — Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2026
• Our 2-year-old lemon sapling has its leaves turning white and the tip is dying.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• Two males were observed removing a sapling tree from the ground.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• The team has amassed 17 billion seeds and thousands of tree saplings.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• My husband has built trellises from straight young saplings, cut from the woods.
  — Barbara Damrosch, The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
• In 2009, the next year, a carpet of cork-tree saplings popped up.
  — Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
• The boys horsed around with a sapling, pulling on its branches and laughing in the sunlight.
  — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• His ax handle is a 17-foot-long tree sapling with all of the bark removed.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
• There was a brown jumble of slender trees, saplings, shrubs, bushes, vines and roots.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, Claire Rigby and Jeremy White, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
• Except, in this case, the sapling could throw a fastball at more than a hundred miles per hour.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
• The summer noise of saplings and shrubs and bug nests and grass and flowers had been muffled by the snow.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
• 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
• And the saplings will be about a foot tall when they are given to their recipients.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
• Once the sapling is a foot tall, cut the main stem of the sapling about 1/3 of the way down, just above a node.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2025
• According to the city, the saplings cannot be planted on parkways.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Al Dhaheri says three million saplings have been planted in the last decade alone.
  — Sophie Tremblay, CNN, 15 July 2019
• Instead of wheat and rice, the owners grow sweet potatoes and sakura tree saplings.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• But as Plumier wades through saplings and cattails, his headlamp is on the prowl.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
• There are efforts afoot to reduce elk herds, to give the saplings a better chance at survival.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
• The children used their water rations to nurture the sapling.
  — Julia Gergely, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2021