Sentence examples for had to fell from inspiring English sources

Donar, a Germanic god, reputedly whispered in a holy oak, and Boniface merely had to fell the Donar oak in order to demonstrate the superiority of Christ over the pagan god.

"Two of our sites have been affect by [Phytophthora ramorum]... so we had to fell the larch on those sites," he said.

More than 2,000 trees had to be felled and burned.

So local officials said it had to be felled.

It seems a shame a tree in Queens had to be felled just to make a stop sign visible ("Wielding the Ax, When a Tree Endangers Life and Limb, Sept. 17).

It had to be felled, still burning, by a grizzled tree faller flown in from the Canadian Forest Service.

The rates firms had to pay to borrow fell by 2.5 percentage points.

They had to drag and roll felled mahogany trunks to riverfronts and then float the logs, which were chained together, to ships waiting in bays full of sharks and coral reefs.

A young man, newly married, and felled unaccountably, had to live in a closet for an extended period before he could handle light and sound.

On the bright side, fewer trees have to be felled to provide paper, which is helpful because there are also fewer trees to fell.

The entire European commission would have to go, felled by a vote of no confidence in the European parliament.