How to Use copse in a Sentence

copse

noun
  • It was carved into a copse of trees, but today there is no trace, not even a corpse of the court.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2019
  • The kid whistles, summoning a horse from a copse of mesquite.
    Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • There are no horses now, only the wind crashing through the long grass, pulling leaves from a copse of trees that grows along a ravine.
    Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Nonetheless, thick and silent fog hugged a roadside copse of cedars.
    Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
  • In a small copse of trees near the street in front of the nursing home, a large cargo van had smashed down on top of the trees, breaking what branches the wind had spared.
    Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2021
  • It’s equal parts funny and fantastic to see a mech awkwardly trying to blend in with a copse of 50 ft.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 June 2017
  • There is a homeless encampment in a little copse of wood where Georgetown starts.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Turlhanger’s Wood slept to the north, Chestnut Wood to the south, fallow fields and the occasional copse in between.
    Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Suddenly, an enormous whoosh rose from the canyon, and a copse of aspen exploded.
    The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In a copse of trees on the southeastern side of the island, the boys found a 13-foot-wide depression surrounded by loose soil and young trees—signs the ground had been disturbed.
    Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
  • Inside a copse of trees, a buffalo, the testiest and most unpredictable animal in the bush, rustled a branch.
    Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2019
  • At the heart of La Quinta, the main lawn is home to 1920s Spanish Revival bungalows scattered around a central waterfall in a copse.
    John Oseid, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • In Waveland, Zeta’s winds pried the metal roof straight off Ingrid Carambat’s home, throwing it more than a hundred feet into a copse of trees.
    Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Readers note possible clues—a dog tussles with an old navy-blue body-warmer found in a copse of trees—of which the book’s characters remain oblivious.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There is a hush as the field sets off at a lick, disappearing briefly behind a copse before emerging to climb to the high point of the course ahead of a sweeping downhill right-hander into the final straight.
    Rob Hodgetts At Longchamp, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Some of the tanks, covered in webbing, hid in a copse, about as inconspicuously as is possible for a 50-tonne vehicle.
    The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • In one of the more remarkable lidar finds, Gheyle identified traces of where a small group of Allied soldiers made camp for the night, including the protective sandbags around the tents, in a copse of trees some seven miles behind the front.
    Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • Christopher Lloyd, who created a repository of outsized characters, strides across the stage under a copse of soaring spruce.
    Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The film loops continually back to Goldsworthy’s home base in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and, in particular, to a narrow riverway surrounded by a copse of trees.
    Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The bluebells arrive, like an iridescent blue carpet below, spreading along hedgerows, suddenly swamping forests and copses, emerging out of the rotten, sodden leaves of last autumn.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, just out of sight through a copse of trees, a first-grade class sat under a white tent listening to their teacher explain what Earth Day is, and how everyone has a responsibility to protect Mother Nature.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The occasional low tower of a Norman church, or peaked gable roof of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, poked out from behind huddled green copses, and wildflowers were growing in the gravel between the train tracks.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • It is punctuated by white plantation-style wood bungalows and yards made colorful with heaps of bougainvillea, stands of lobster-claw heliconia, and copses of banana and papaya trees.
    Hanya Yanagihara, ELLE Decor, 12 July 2010
  • Even though many of us are still visibly attenuated from the Holotropic Breathwork, we are immediately shunted outside and told to walk toward a copse of distant trees, for what activity, exactly, the facilitators will not say.
    Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019

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