WILLOW in a Sentence

Learn WILLOW 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.

31 example sentences for WILLOW, such as:

1. Several branches of the willows drooped over the water.
2. He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
3. Through the willow hedge I could hear Nina's cries of delight, and I felt comforted.
4. Dwarf willow is the only tree species up there and it grows along the ground between the rocks.
5. One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers.

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willow
 n.  trees having usually narrow leaves
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1  Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  When Mrs. Harling made garden that spring, we could feel the stir of her undertaking through the willow hedge that separated our place from hers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
3  After supper I used to catch up my cap, stick my hands in my pockets, and dive through the willow hedge as if witches were after me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
4  Through the willow hedge I could hear Nina's cries of delight, and I felt comforted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
5  Out in the stream the sandbars glittered like glass, and the light trembled in the willow thickets as if little flames were leaping among them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
6  I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
7  By that time everything we had in the world was on our raft, and she was ready to be shoved out from the willow cove where she was hid.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
8  Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosure, and was not long in finding a little wooden gate, working on willow hinges, and fastened with a nail and string.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
9  Leaning, silent, sardonic, against the door he was like a withered willow, bent over a stream, all its leaves shed, and in his eyes the whimsical flow of the waters.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
13  One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
14  There was a long pause, while a blackbird sung blithely on the willow by the river, and the tall grass rustled in the wind.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
15  The marsh could be recognized by the mist which rose from it, thicker in one place and thinner in another, so that the reeds and willow bushes swayed like islands in this mist.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
Example Sentence:
1  She was slender as a willow - and equally graceful, equally erect.
2  Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces.
3  Dwarf willow is the only tree species up there and it grows along the ground between the rocks.
4  He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
5  Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
6  Several branches of the willows drooped over the water.