How to Use branch in a Sentence

branch

1 of 2 noun

• The bank has a new branch in our area.
• She works at the branch office downtown.
• The ten captive vultures were perched on a tree branch in the aviary.
  — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Each spring, up to 10 herons raise their chicks high in the branches of a tree near the old ranch lodge.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Ideally, these could have a groove at the top that the branch fits into.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2023
• Roads were littered with limbs and branches, and some were caked in mud.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
• If the thought of dropping $150 on a bundle of branches turns you Grinchy, take heart.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• Davis cast a skeptical eye on the work of the judicial branch.
  — USA Today, 25 July 2023
• At the very least, if one branch suspects fraud, why isn’t the account tagged so that a nearby branch is on alert?
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The group clears trails of brush and fallen tree branches and works on grading on over 80 miles of park trails.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• One snake is wrapped around a small tree branch while another is stretched out in some leaves.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• The eastern species grow branches closer to the ground in a V shape – although both species can grow quite large.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
• The trio used palm tree branches to make their desperate plea.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The leaves and branches are dangerous if burned or used in cooking.
  — Sara Okeefe, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• In a forest of Ecuador, a 2-foot-long creature grabbed onto a branch and waited.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
• The branches of a large tree shaded Hogan’s corner of the two-story complex.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The plants respond by sending out branches along the stem, resulting in a fuller, stronger plant.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2024
• Once the glitter has dried, attach the branches, a few faux nests, and birds evenly throughout.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• And DiSalvo said more branches are planned for the Huntsville market.
  — Scott Turner | , al, 12 July 2023
• Today, its branches extend over 60 feet high and stretch even wider.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The longleaf pine’s branches arch toward the sky, each bud bursting with spindly green fingers.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• The blessed palm branches from Palm Sunday are saved and later burned to create the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some Wells Fargo branches will be open on Sunday, March 31.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2024
• Tree curves and twists its trunk and branches into the shape of a train, then a boat, then a plane, as the duo travels across seasons, geographies, and climates.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
• Together we are made from the dreams of our elders and sprout from the branches of their wildest imaginations.
  — Laila Annmarie Stevens, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024
• The gloves are also handy for work in brushy yards and will protect against scratches from branches, insect bites, and poison ivy.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024
• The late Free Press publisher and editor Neal Shine once recalled learning as a boy to shoot pool in the branch's billiards room.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• Multiple marsh fires have been burning in the area, according to the New Orleans branch of the weather service.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Reportedly, the crews were drawn from both the artillery and tank branches—instead of just the latter—and received just one week of training.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
• The new warning was not yet in the developer, beta, and stable branches of Chrome as of today.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024

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branch

2 of 2 verb

• The stream branches from the river near their house.
• To start, the couple wants to branch out in the Midwest.
  — Nick Williams, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
• If the path branched to the left, Fano added a 0; right branches got a 1.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Johnson said now was the time to branch out from the window that gave them their start.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• The key is to branch out while you are inspired and do something brand-new.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• But all of these bangers branch off the same family tree.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2022
• By the end of the decade, Fiddler had branched into dance music.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
• Lee, though, was excited to branch out in the glam trailer.
  — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 20 Apr. 2022
• Cutting healthy stems stimulates the plant to branch out from the node right below the cut.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2022
• In Pevek, one of these loops is the system of pipes that leave the plant, branch out and supply hot water to homes.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• In the 1990s the U.S. military began to branch out from largely lethal weapons to non-lethal weapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2022
• And Tannen said the company plans to branch out to other parts of the home, and beyond.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• The goal is to train up a young crop of athletes who may one day branch out with an all-women’s league.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2022
• Pinch back the stem on which the finished flower sits and the plant will finally branch and fill out.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• Some kinds of trees, such as spruces and firs, start branching just above the ground, and other species have more than one stem.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The Kevin Willard coaching tree continues to branch out.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023
• Most trails branch off, so a partner helps ensure you don’t get lost.
  — Sarah Michel, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• The Benkerts are far from the first Hampden restaurateurs to branch out into the ‘burbs.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• But many chose to branch out with playful color, shape and design changes.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
• The plan is to take the small park loop trail, then branch out into some of the Great Meadows farmland property north of the landing.
  — courant.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• After three years at the rooftop restaurant, the 36-year-old New Jersey native wanted to branch out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• The house is designed with no hallways, but instead fingers that branch out from the main courtyard.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• The Perkins had owned a franchise restaurant in the Tanger Outlets mall for several years and were looking to branch out.
  — al, 11 Feb. 2022
• The researchers’ findings therefore provide strong support for the idea that ctenophores branched first.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• For sharp twists and turns, the hose comes with various fittings that allows the hose to branch off at a 90-degree angle.
  — James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2022
• Here are some ideas for where MLB should continue to play games and look to branch out beyond its comfort zone.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
• Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, the hosts of a dishy podcast that deconstructs the bizarre genre of memoirs by the rich and famous, branch out with a stage show.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• The other short works seem to branch from the sturdy roots of this first piece, proposing distinctive visions of what tap can be.
  — Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Some trees grow straight and tall with a single dominant leader while others tend to branch out over and over again.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
• Don’t be afraid to branch out to newer media to establish your brand’s expert voice.
  — Amine Rahal, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024