How to Use weeping willow in a Sentence

weeping willow

noun

• Nearby there are stands of elm trees, a weeping willow.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• When the river is high, the branches of the weeping willow planted in cobblestones at the tip of the square caress the surface of the Seine.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• Wander around weeping willows and green lily ponds in the gardens that inspired some of his greatest works of art.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The weeping willow has a relative in the Arctic (Salix herbacea) that tops out at less than 2 inches.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• With classic red-brick buildings, weeping willows, and students sprawled out on grassy knolls year-round, USC feels like everything the movies told you college would be.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2018
• Bamboo stalks and weeping willows sweep across the wide, contrasting borders.
  — Doris Athineos, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Patrons can purchase seats allowing them to watch the play from the onstage bench or bleachers; the rest of us will be enveloped by a large tree, akin to a weeping willow and stretched like a canopy over the audience.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
• Tiny bridges, babbling streams, weeping willows and koi fish are integrated into the hillside in the most storybook of ways.
  — Ed Droste, Vogue, 28 May 2019
• When Elaine did finally erect a memorial to its victims in April, the remembrance -- a weeping willow tree -- was chopped down, Olson says.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 19 May 2021
• These are scintillating queries which include: sprinklers or hoses, apples or pears, feathers or wood, and weeping willow or oak.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• And the gardens are like an impressionist painting come to life, with water lilies, weeping willows, wisterias, and the famous green Japanese bridge.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2019
• Family and close friends shared joyful stories beneath a weeping willow.
  — David Biller, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
• And the gardens are an impressionist painting come to life, with water lilies, weeping willows, wisterias, and the famous green Japanese bridge.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2019
• About a dozen mosaic sculptures sit among the park’s weeping willows, designed by local and international artists, to convey a message of universal peace and friendship.
  — Prathap Nair, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• The expansive, three-story structure is supported by broad wood beams high above and looks out of enormous cathedral-like windows to a large garden, where pebbled trails meander through plants and weeping willows toward comfy seating areas.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024