BRANCH in a Sentence

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286 example sentences for BRANCH, such as:
1. I chopped a branch off the tree.
2. Each branch may become a dynasty.
3. There they branch out in every direction.
4. He grafted the branch onto the apple tree.
5. Congress is the legislative branch of the U.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BRANCH
branch
 n.  a natural consequence of development
 n.  a division of some larger or more complex organization
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of the twilight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  almost rivalled London and Berlin in this branch of commerce.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
3  He still had the branch of apple-tree in his hand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
4  To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
5  This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
6  His client, whom he, in his character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
7  I found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch without knowing that it would get me into trouble.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
8  The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
9  Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that is to say, towards deserted regions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10  I get down at Vernon, in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
11  There they branch out in every direction.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
12  was merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should please the King to reassume it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
13  Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
14  Each branch may become a dynasty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
15  A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  The bank recently opened a branch in Germany.
2  He grafted the branch onto the apple tree.
3  The branch of a tree knocked one of the horsewomen senseless.
4  I chopped a branch off the tree.
5  The bookshop has decided to branch out into selling various records and tapes.
6  The branch sagged under the weight of the apples.
7  A bank's local market share tends to be divided equally between the local branch and branches located elsewhere.
8  It was a bold move on their part to open a branch of the business in France.
9  She tried to catch at a branch but couldn't reach.
10  Congress is the legislative branch of the U.
11  The food was analysed root and branch and found to contain small amounts of poison.
12  The customer has only to bring the goods in to any branch and an immediate, no-questions-asked refund or replacement will be provided.
13  With an easy spring the cat reached the branch.
14  The top of the tree had been cut off to encourage it to branch lower down.
15  In the US, the president is part of the executive branch of the government.