SAPLING in a Sentence

Learn SAPLING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SAPLING, such as:

1. She cut down the sapling with one chop.
2. The swishing saplings tried to make known his presence to the world.
3. Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him behind his back.
4. Heyward tore the weapon of Magua from the sapling, and rushed eagerly toward the fray.
5. He was then bound and fastened to the body of the sapling, on whose branches Magua had acted the pantomime of the falling Huron.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAPLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sapling
 n.  young tree
Classic Sentence:
1  He was then bound and fastened to the body of the sapling, on whose branches Magua had acted the pantomime of the falling Huron.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
2  Heyward tore the weapon of Magua from the sapling, and rushed eagerly toward the fray.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
3  He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him behind his back.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
5  The swishing saplings tried to make known his presence to the world.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  She cut down the sapling with one chop.