Sentence examples for broken off branches from inspiring English sources

There were broken off branches from half submerged dead elms that might have passed as spears, swords or sabres.

And yet, I hear black birch leaves breaking off branches and rasping as they land on the rocks below.

The two shouted threats at rescue workers and broke off branches to throw at police officers, who said they did not know why the men had climbed the tree.

They often use their long horns to break off branches.

They also use their horns to break off branches that are hard to reach.

The police then broke off branches from nearby trees, broke the windows of the bus, and threw pepper spray and tear gas inside the bus.

Live bark is often ripped off the tree in strips up to a meter long and then the cambium is removed with canines (e.g., C. africana trees), or bark is peeled back from twigs broken off of branches and then the pith is consumed (e.g., P. angolensis trees; Waser 1977; Olupot 1998; RLC, personal observation).

This piece, intended to be worn descending from one shoulder, begins with a broken off bit of "branch" and ends with a tiny pair of leaves.

Andrey has entered a phase of his life where he wants to remain contained and unchanged within his own little world, and when he sees an old oak tree, "with branches broken off it ages ago and its old, cracked bark all scarred and broken", he finds communion with the tree: "He's right, that tree, a thousand times right...he and I know what life is.

Decayed pilings broken off.

The negotiations were broken off.