How to Use tree line in a Sentence
tree line
noun- The hikers had reached the tree line by noon.
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Plans show most of the tree line along the south and west of the site has been preserved.
— Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022 -
Nail any sparse hairs above the tree line with a pair of tweezers.
— Liza Corsillo, GQ, 28 Sep. 2017 -
My stand was hung on the point of a tree line that was near a coyote den.
— Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023 -
There needs to be a tree line or woods nearby, of course.
— Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021 -
One man even strung a balloon 55 feet above the tree line to make his point.
— Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2019 -
Moments later, the sun broke free from the clouds along the tree line past left field.
— Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 June 2021 -
Theo cleared, trimmed and cleaned the entire grounds and tree line of the St. Mary of the Falls Church property.
— cleveland, 26 June 2021 -
There are no street lights, and fields of cotton, corn and citrus trees line the road.
— T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017 -
The StoryWalk® is located on the side and back of the open space fields along the tree line.
— Courant Community, 26 Dec. 2017 -
The body of Richard Hunt, 53, was found along a tree line on Dec. 7, police say in a news release.
— Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021 -
My husband can lie on a sofa, staring at the tree line and at the sky.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020 -
Nor are the multi-million-dollar homes that peek out from the tree line along the route.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023 -
The plot is just over an acre and is separated from view of the prison by a small tree line.
— Joe Songer | Jsonger@al.com, AL.com, 2 Jan. 2018 -
The next day, on their seventh attempt, the Russians took the tree line and cut the lower road, Dmytro said.
— Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Looking at the war records, Hartl's trees line up with the Tripitz's locations.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2018 -
Hero Cow smashed straight through a metal fence, the BBC wrote, broke a worker’s arm and bounded across the farm to the tree line.
— Avi Selk, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018 -
Above tree line and in arid areas, no trees are available.
— Andrew Skurka, Outside Online, 12 Feb. 2019 -
Above the tree line, the men will risk open ground—first thistly yellow-grass hillside, then shale, then scree.
— Alex Perry, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2021 -
The man's body could be seen late Monday morning face down near a tree line to the left of the old school's parking lot.
— Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2022 -
The illusion ends when the suspension tower of the great bridge pokes above the tree line.
— Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020 -
Yes, that Pikes Peak, the one that runs up the side of a mountain, much of it above the tree line, with few guardrails and thousand-foot drops off the side.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017 -
The solar panels appear to be screened from Luedtke's own house by a tree line.
— Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2018 -
Palm trees line the wide roads of what looks like a Florida suburb.
— Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018 -
That tree line was a highway of deer sign, with rubs and scrapes and scat everywhere.
— John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 10 Mar. 2021 -
But there isn’t a tree line or gorse bushes or anything else.
— Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022 -
Where there was once a dense border of trees lining both sides of the road was now just branches and stumps.
— Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017 -
The sky, a tree line and a ridgeline can form a natural structure.
— Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021 -
In Chaffee County, that might mean a steep mountainside above tree line.
— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024 -
As the tree line moved northward, so did animal species, according to the fossil record.
— Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024
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