Sentence examples for highest trees from inspiring English sources

Only the tops of the highest trees half-emerged from the mist, like drowning spectres.

In the late afternoon, Dante and others climbed the highest trees I had seen in the forest.

However, the microclimate near the ground is warmer, allowing prostrate shrubs to grow at altitudes well above the highest trees.

Huge birds with exotic-sounding names and even more exotic-looking beaks perch imperiously on the highest trees, casting a desultory eye over the forest below.

"Around the Canopy" is a spare installation concerning an avian version of the squid: the large, rarely sighted harpy eagle, whose habitat includes the Amazon's highest trees.

The Newcastle naturalist William Chapman Hewitson visited Norway in 1833, and saw the bird in its full breeding-season splendour, "perched upon the summit of the highest trees, pouring forth its delightfully wild note".

The diversification efforts can be most noticed in Manhattan, the borough with the highest tree turnover.

Advertising has been described as "Climbing to the top of the highest tree, and shouting louder than everyone else".

Losses like those of the last couple years, he added, would probably mean calls for "people to be hung from the highest tree".

The highest tree density (1,358 trees ha-1) was found in CJ73, where no thinning activity had occurred.

So, it doesn't mean the bad guys get away – they still swing from the highest tree.