Sentence examples for clearing of woods from inspiring English sources

World agricultural carbon emissions, on the other hand, result primarily from the clearing of woods for crop growing and livestock grazing.

I stroll back into the wood to find a picnic spot: a nicely positioned bench in a clearing of coppiced wood and a reception committee of ancient standing trees – shapely and established, their horizontal branches outspread as if in welcome.

Try to hide in the shadows and steer clear of the woods.

For a lavish Water Mill project, Mr. Caputo cleared an acre of woods, creating a long vista of fairway up to the green.

In his account of the personal scandal that wrecked the golfer's marriage and derailed his career for more than two years, Haney is quick to clear the reputation of Woods's former caddie Steve Williams (he knew nothing of his employer's philandering, according to the coach) but then goes on to reveal the fallout from the scandal had caused "tension" between the caddie and his wife.

He imagined that instead of being at the Kanto party-reservation lawn, they were once more in the clearing of some mysterious wood.

Mullin believes "MI5 has been cleared of dead wood" who would drive such plots.

MI5 has been cleared of dead wood such as Peter Wright and his friends.

Suddenly, we are clear of the wood and decide to aim for a distant weir across the West Dart.

Portuguese officials say fires are often started deliberately and spread quickly because forests are not cleared of dead wood.

Large-scale clearing of the Amazon forest — for wood, cattle-grazing and agricultural products like soybeans — is threatening the native people's traditional way of life.