Sentence examples for highest boughs from inspiring English sources

The highest boughs stretch across the lane to the trees on the opposite side, their leaves overlapping, eclipsing the sun.

Frank Sinatra, feeling the lyric was too grim, asked Martin rewrite it when he recorded the song for his 1957 LP "A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra". Martin came up with "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough," a line that many other performers have used since.

In 1957 Frank Sinatra did an upbeat version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and had the line, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough", inserted in place of the dour "Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow", but Sinatra's change was stylistic.

So to substitute for "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow," he came up with "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough".

Alley Pond Park, which preserves wetlands along its creek, boasts native tulip trees that are centuries old; the train station has a weeping beech that probably dates from the 1880s; and the curving streets of Douglas Manor are overarched with high boughs.

I have this summer envied the oriole which had even a swinging nest in the high bough.

It passed through a clearing, and I saw its giant shoulders brush against a high bough, streaking its fur with snow.

As we approach, a Cooper's hawk detaches himself on the wing from a high bough and drifts into the orchard a few feet above the ground.

Another slab--red, bloody and wet--dangles from a high bough nearby, and a pair of motion-detecting trail cameras are trained squarely on the meat.

Hear it blowing through the swaying boughs high on the loblolly pines.

It must have branches low enough to be ascended without a rope, but also have boughs high and sturdy enough that the hammocks can safely be suspended.