Sentence examples for sick tree from inspiring English sources

A helpful analogy is that of a sick tree.

A reserve worker noticed a single sick tree and soon discovered others failing nearby.

Classically people caught in the grip of addiction (the sick tree) are taken away from their geographical setting into rehab where they are able to heal.

It's hard not to note the symbolism as tree after tree is decapitated and torn out, infested with the virus from the first sick tree.

A model's body, for one, looks "like a sick tree with a rotten knot"; another girl resembles "a big, drooping plant".

Parks workers questioned by Ms. Handwerker's lawyer, Sal Spano, said that they did not know how to assess a sick tree: they mostly just looked for hanging branches.

These were not sick trees.

The amended version of the text recasts lumberjacks as heroes who "cut down sick trees.

Arborists say they have noticed more caution, with more Atlantans having sick trees inspected and removed out of fear that they will come down less gently on their own.

However, in 2006, specialists, concerned about a growing number of sick trees, identified the culprit, the fungus Ceratocystis platani, believed to have arrived in France via the ammunition boxes of American GIs during the second world war.

Some growers, hoping to avoid the high cost of pulling up sick trees and replacing them with those grown in insect-proof facilities, have resorted to dosing infected trees with extra nutrients in hopes of prolonging their lifespan, a controversial strategy that researchers fear may contribute to the disease's spread.