Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Groundbreaking took place in July 1954 on a 160-acre orange grove in Anaheim about 22 miles south of Los Angeles.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
9 July 2025 -
Silvery green olive groves produce the oil that’s served in the hotel’s three restaurants.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Noun
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
Noun
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.—
Jamie Malanowski,
Air Mail,
21 June 2025
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In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.—
Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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