Sentence examples for like saplings from inspiring English sources

Her characters are like saplings bent by storms.

Animals simply burst into flame: raptors burned like saplings and great armored herbivores cooked in their own monstrous shells".

Other fallen trees sport new growths that look like saplings in miniature, mysteriously emerging from their trunks.

The man possessed magnificent eyebrows, which projected straight out of his face and then curved upward, like saplings that sprout from a bluff and yearn for the sun.

Artistic statements in blue neon lighting are written across the ivy-clad walls, spindly figures rise up like saplings amid the trees, and among the various sculptures and art installations you'll find the graves of Peggy herself and 14 of her dogs.

Essentially Indian in style, the figures of the relief have a smooth, pliant delicacy -- arms and legs are like sapling branches -- characteristic of carving by Newar artists, members of the ethnic majority in the Katmandu Valley and creators of some of the most beautiful Buddhist art ever made.

The two lives told in Ghost Hawk are not separate entities, but are skilfully entwined, just like the saplings that made the handle of the tomahawk; and the overall effect is both powerful and convincing.

From the air, the neat rows of cannabis plants in a clearing carved into the tropical dry forest along Paraguay's lawless border with Brazil look like pine saplings.

It rose from the floor like a sapling emerging from a crack in the sidewalk.

Beneath his savage sanding the ladder swayed like a sapling in the wind.

Former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell had the most intimidating waggle of all, rapidly windmilling the bat like a sapling.