BIRCH in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for BIRCH, such as:

1. We found that birch bark could serve as paper.
2. The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.
3. He sat in his short overcoat leaning against a birch tree.
4. stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
5. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep over the squadron.

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 Meanings and Examples of BIRCH
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birch
 n.  tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Sobakevitch's country house and estate were of very fair size, and on each side of the mansion were expanses of birch and pine forest in two shades of green.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  Soon to the foregoing trees there became added an occasional birch or spruce fir, while in the dense undergrowth around their roots could be seen the blue iris and the yellow wood-tulip.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
3  Beside it, in a young birch copse, could be seen a small house with a thatched roof.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep over the squadron.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
5  Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
6  stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
7  It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
8  Rostov, always closely followed by Ilyin, rode along the side of the road between two rows of birch trees.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
9  Far in the distance in that birch and fir forest to the right of the road, the cross and belfry of the Kolocha Monastery gleamed in the sun.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
10  From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIII
11  The dressing station consisted of three tents with flaps turned back, pitched at the edge of a birch wood.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Some crows, scenting blood, flew among the birch trees cawing impatiently.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
13  He sat in his short overcoat leaning against a birch tree.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIV
14  Karataev was still sitting at the side of the road under the birch tree and two Frenchmen were talking over his head.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIV
15  Venus, bright and silvery, shone with her soft light low down in the west behind the birch trees, and high up in the east twinkled the red lights of Arcturus.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.
2  We found that birch bark could serve as paper.