Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began: There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the Lebanese side, brown farmland and olive groves are inaccessible now to their owners.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Banana farms, coconut plantations and citrus groves perished in the storm.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
28 Oct. 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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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
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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,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Two days later, her car was found on Avery’s lot in a thicket of branches with a disconnected battery.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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There Sones found in a thicket of trees and underbrush a black ski mask.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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