BRANCHES in a Sentence

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For BRANCHES, below is one of 286 sentences:
The way that the trunk of a tree divides into smaller and smaller branches and twigs is an approximate fractal pattern.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRANCHES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
branch
 n.  one of the parts of a tree that grow out from the trunk
 v.  expand or extend, as business activities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
2  She was standing a few feet from a young apple-tree and the robin had flown on to one of its branches and had burst out into a scrap of a song.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  It was strong enough to wave the branches of the trees, and it was more than strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy hanging from the wall.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  There were numbers of standard roses which had so spread their branches that they were like little trees.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He showed her swelling leafbuds on rose branches which had seemed dead.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Between the blossoming branches of the canopy bits of blue sky looked down like wonderful eyes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  "The branches are quite gray and there's not a single leaf anywhere," Colin went on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
9  The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
10  There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
11  These young trees, and they were always the finest looking, retained their branches; they were laid on carts, and the horses drew them out of the wood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE FIR TREE
12  So they fell upon it with such violence that all its branches cracked; if it had not been fixed firmly in the ground, it would certainly have tumbled down.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE FIR TREE
13  They snuffed about the Fir Tree, and rustled among the branches.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE FIR TREE
14  The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
15  And then she took the little boy out of bed, laid him on her bosom, and the branches of the Elder Tree, full of flowers, closed around her.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  A bank's local market share tends to be divided equally between the local branch and branches located elsewhere.
17  The tree is too big,you'll have to chop back some of the branches.
18  You'll have to break the branches away to get through the thick forest.
19  Workmen have lopped off more branches in an effort to save the tree.
20  Follow the main road until it branches and then turn to the left.
21  When the forest was cleared,a lot of small branches were ploughed under.
22  The judiciary, not the executive or legislative branches, was the most powerful institution, I decided.
23  The weed had twined itself round the branches.
24  I hacked the dead branches off.
25  The sunlight shining through the branches made a filigree pattern on the tiles.
26  The way that the trunk of a tree divides into smaller and smaller branches and twigs is an approximate fractal pattern.
27  The trees send forth many branches when spring comes.
28  The small birds flitted through the branches.
29  He was thus involved in extensive travelling throughout the District, addressing meetings of branches, trade unions and co-operative societies.
30  But the new decade also promises to revolutionise high street bank branches yet again.