Example sentences for: willows

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

  • Willows in Amsterdam bud "like crowds in Pissarro along a wet boulevard's branches."

  • On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.

  • Sightseeing starts among the weeping willows along the shores of the Lake of Great Light (Daminghu), in the northern part of the old city.

  • He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."

  • Like Melville's Ishmael, who noted that "meditation and water are wedded for ever," Monet found that all his moods found echoes in the reflected weeping willows and tangled lilies.


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