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Example sentences for "fallen tree"

  • At last the girl sat down on a fallen tree.

  • Wheeler noticed a dusky figure beneath the firs, and, moving towards it, came upon a man with a pipe in his hand, sitting upon a fallen tree.

  • He went up for several hours through withered fern and matted undergrowth, and over horrible tangles of fallen tree-trunks, some of which were raised high above the snow on giant splintered branches.

  • In silence we followed Auguste through the depths of the woods, turning here and there to avoid a fallen tree or a sink-hole where the water still remained.

  • At dark Polly Ann and I carried the packs across a creek on a fallen tree, she taking one end and I the other.

  • Bewildered with fear, I dropped under a fallen tree.

  • Seating ourselves on the trunk of a fallen tree, we enjoyed the beautiful prospect before us.

  • Tiger went out alone, and returned in the evening with two deer legs and a beaver, having surprised the latter on land while nibbling off the branches of a fallen tree.

  • Seating himself upon a fallen tree he scribbled a hasty note to Sir James Yardely, telling him that he had news of Helen and that he hoped very shortly to return to camp with her, and having addressed it gave it to the half-breed.

  • She lifted the blanket to learn the cause of the delay; and made the discovery that the dog-harness having become entangled in the branch of a fallen tree, had broken and the halt was necessary for repairs.

  • Suddenly the leader sniffed at a fallen tree where, doubtless, the cat had perched, then with a ringing bay, the hound clamped his tail close to his rump and left in a streak of yellow light.

  • Bluford dropped under a fallen tree, where the bear repeatedly assaulted him, tearing at his body.

  • By crawling on his hands and knees he came within a hundred and fifty yards, when his progress was stopped by a fallen tree.

  • Over the logs we step, walk a rod or two further, stop beside the blackened trunk of a fallen tree, turn our faces to the left, and behold the nest.

  • I lingered a moment, for it was a lovely spot, attractive to birds as to bird-lovers, and high up in the air on the upturned roots of a fallen tree "an elder or two Foamed over with blossoms white as spray.

  • I got to the head of the bush, and sat down upon a fallen tree.

  • This creek could only be passed by foot-passengers scrambling over a fallen tree, which, in a dark night, was not very easy to find.

  • I was tired and hungry, and I sat down upon a fallen tree to rest.

  • At last, by good luck, at some distance farther down a native canoe was found, caught in the branches of a fallen tree.

  • The rest immediately took shelter behind a fallen tree, which was lying across the path.

  • Just as the head of the troops arrived at the top, they were fired into from behind a fallen tree.

  • Two of the warriors, leaving their rifles where they were leaning against a fallen tree, leisurely rose and sauntered into the woods, taking a course directly opposite to that which would have led them to where the boys stood.

  • When at last he managed to do so, he sat down on a fallen tree to rest and indulge in a retrospective survey.

  • He was so worn out that he crept close to a fallen tree, where he slept several hours.

  • Nevertheless he managed to drag himself to the top of a fallen tree hard by, where he hid himself until the battle was over and the Indians gone.

  • One day Daniel asked the teacher for permission to go out-doors, and receiving it, he passed into the clear air just at the moment that a brown squirrel was running along the branch of a fallen tree.

  • The children made a sort of play out of it, the eldest boy personating Red Mick, while two of the younger ones hid in a fallen tree, and were routed out by Thomas Carlyle.

  • If you went out and hid in a fallen tree, don't you think you could catch them?

  • It was all very well to put Red Mick in the dock, but it was evident that part of the defence would be, "How came you to be under the boughs of a fallen tree with an attractive young woman when Red Mick's dogs came up with the sheep?

  • There's a newly-fallen tree about a hundred yards down the creek; we'll get among its branches and watch.

  • The firelight was thrown over the fallen tree, and reached some distance beyond, so that the figure of Black Turtle, as he rose like a shadow to his feet, was plainly shown.

  • Seating himself upon a fallen tree, the soldier fell into a reverie, but, hark!

  • Then, turning towards the trapper, he came on, put his paws on a small, fallen tree, and looked his adversary full in the face.

  • His fingers dropped from his rifle trigger, and, taking off his hat and coat, he hung them to the branch of a fallen tree, then silently crept toward the thicket.

  • Wetzel knew well the woodland in which he found himself, and hastening to a dense thicket pushed through a close tangle of briars to a fallen tree.

  • In the meantime the outcry had at first caused the fugitives to hasten their steps; but, fearing that the rustle and crash of their progress through the bush would arrest the pursuers' attention, they dropped behind a fallen tree.

  • At other points it wound round a fallen tree, no one having taken the trouble to remove the obstruction.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fallen tree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are but; desert life; distant place; during the past year; euery side; fallen cold and dead; fallen leaves; fallen snow; fallen timber; fallen trees; fallen woman; fallen women; four battalions; healthy condition; her friend; keep her; last resolved; leave home; made holy; many dialects; may easily; musical history; pale rose; pottery from; this were; urged against