Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
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The shift in setting, from the States to Sicily, should yield evocative and, at least for a video game, new sights: The story itself begins in the Sicilian sulfur mines before whisking players through a rural landscape of pretty villages and aromatic lemon groves.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
23 May 2025 -
The 8-mile round-trip hike crosses bridges over creeks and winds through aspen groves, alpine meadows, and past smaller cascades before reaching the multi-tiered waterfall in Eagles Nest Wilderness.—
Jennifer Broome,
Denver Post,
20 May 2025
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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
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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
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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On Rikers, a thicket of laws and lore, regulations and culture bind and barnacle decision-making.—
Elizabeth Glazer,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
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Fourteen years of civil war, and a thicket of financial restrictions imposed by the U.S. government and others, have crippled Syria, physically and economically.—
Ephrat Livni,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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