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Keep "pollard" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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Showing 16 of 18 words.
8 total sentences available.
The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.
Source: wiktionary
Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.
Source: wiktionary
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
Source: wiktionary
And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
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