Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025 -
To distract me from the bombs exploding around us, my grandfather described his former home and olive groves in what is now Israel, which he had been forced to flee in 1948.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
Noun
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Patent thickets are when manufacturers file multiple patents on one product to forestall generic competition.—
Victoria Knight,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the early days of graphic methods in statistics and the sciences, charts and graphs were meant to be efficient, clearing a thicket of abundant information in the heyday of print.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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