Example sentences for: birches

How can you use “birches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Frost calls this custom swinging birches , and the one who practises it, a swinger of birches . Though the custom was not universal, back in the days when youngsters still invented their own entertainments, enough of them swung the limber birches for it to be a common pastime.

  • The island scenery is another painter’s delight — the dark green of the spruces and silver birches against grey-and-pink granite outcrops.

  • Only time will tell, or only as long as youngsters swing, swale, or swedge birches.

  • To see the monochromatic splendor of a wintry Vermont wood, populated only by stands of dusky-white birches and smooth, silver-gray beeches rising from the snow, is, I firmly believe, to live.

  • In his poem, Birches , Robert Frost describes a custom among country boys of climbing birch trees to the very crown, so high the tree can no longer support them but bends over submissively and lowers them to the ground.


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