ALDER in a Sentence
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Example sentences for ALDER, such as:
1. It bolted for a thicket of alders.
2. The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young and easily worked.
3. Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
2. The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young and easily worked.
3. Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
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Meanings and Examples of ALDER
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alder
n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant
n. wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
Classic Sentence:
1 Krak darted out from behind the twisted root of an alder, black all over with the stinking mire of the marsh, and with the air of a conqueror sniffed at Laska.
2 Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
3 Birds twittered their adieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stood ready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at the first shake.
4 He had only five birds in his game-bag when he walked out of the marsh towards the alders where he was to rejoin Stepan Arkadyevitch.
5 It bolted for a thicket of alders.
Example Sentence:
1 The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young and easily worked.