Willow

//ˈwɪloʊ//

"Willow" in a Sentence (19 examples)

How restful it is to sleep under the shadow of a willow in an Anatolian village in summertime.

In our Mediterranean forest, there are lots of trees: oak, pine, willow, ash, elm, etc..

Willow branches don't break under the weight of snow.

Aspirin comes from willow bark.

Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front doo.

My favorite tree is the weeping willow.

In the Mediterranean forests, we have many kinds of trees: oak, pine, willow, ash, elm, and others.

Willow trees are so beautiful when they are blooming with yellow flowers.

A truffle is a fungus which lives in symbiosis with the roots of certain plants, such as oak, hazel, beech, poplar and willow trees.

By the statue she planted a rosy red weeping willow which grew splendidly, and the fresh delicate branches hung round and over it, till they almost touched the blue sand where the shadows showed violet.

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[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

The pounded leaves of the willow, drunk in a concoction, were formerly reputed to diminish amatory desires.

By old age she was emaciated, the bones jutting out of her face and her figure frail as a willow branch.

Willowing over the rough cobbles of the little pier stepped a thin, bent figure, adorned with a silver nanny-goat's beard and bobbling eyes interrupted by the rim of a pair of pince-nez.

Joe’s impulse was to sketch her, with her shadow willowing beyond her on the mouse-gray paving-stone; but his left fist, obeying instinct, remained clenched behind his back […]

It was floating a foot under the surface. The eyes were holes. The mouth was a slit cavern of darkness. The hair willowed around the scalp.

The draft-drawn smoke willowed down through the hole and across my face, but I didn’t worry about coughing or sneezing.

Before he died her father had run a nursery just outside the town. He loved trees so much he'd even named his two daughters and one son after them: Willow, Ashley and Oak.

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