bare branch
Frequency: 6.98.8 per million words
a branch with no leaves
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Examples (10)
- In the heart of winter, the trees were a network of bare branches against the grey sky.
- A solitary robin perched on a bare branch, its red breast a splash of color.
- The artist sketched the intricate pattern of bare branches silhouetted by the moon.
- An early frost had left every bare branch coated in a delicate layer of ice.
- As autumn ended, the last leaves fell, leaving only bare branches to face the cold.
- The bare branches looked like skeletal fingers reaching for the clouds.
- He decided to prune the dead and bare branches before spring arrived.
- The wind whistled eerily through the tangled, bare branches of the old oak.
- Sunlight cast long, sharp shadows from the bare branches onto the snow.
- Even a bare branch can hold the weight of a heavy snowfall.