wildwood

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wildwood 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 My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony. Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildwood
Noun
  • Carmel-by-the-Sea and its gallery scene are a short drive south, while Pacific Grove offers Victorian architecture and monarch butterfly groves.
    Audrey T. Williams, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Outside are a kitchen, firepit, mature tree groves, ponds, a stream, meadows, and a heated driveway and sidewalks.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Except for two copses of skyscrapers in which our financiers—and finances—go up and down, London remains a fairly horizontal city.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This wonderful, hardy, and disease-resistant tree gradually develops into a beautiful understory thicket, providing habitat for wildlife.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The plant in question actually consists of 70 Jurupa oak (Quercus palmeri) stem clusters, only three feet tall, that stand together as a flowering, non-acorn producing clonal colony in the form of a thicket, 82 feet long by 26 feet wide, estimated to be at least 13,000 years old.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026

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“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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