ALDER in a Sentence

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Example sentences for ALDER, such as:

1. It bolted for a thicket of alders.
2. The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young and easily worked.
3. Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALDER
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alder
 n.  north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone like fruit
Classic Sentence:
1  Krak darted out from behind the twisted root of an alder, black all over with the stinking mire of the marsh, and with the air of a conqueror sniffed at Laska.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
2  Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
3  Birds twittered their adieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stood ready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at the first shake.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
4  He had only five birds in his game-bag when he walked out of the marsh towards the alders where he was to rejoin Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
5  It bolted for a thicket of alders.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
Example Sentence:
1  The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young and easily worked.