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Six example sentences with fell, each labelled with its topic.
Colonial crews would fell an entire oak grove in a season, dragging the trunks to the shipyard for keels and masts.
History
The sculptor asked the foresters to fell one straight cedar so she could carve the whole figure from a single trunk.
Art
Before the timber frame could rise, the builders had to fell forty pines and let the logs season for a year.
Architecture
Rangers fell only the diseased ash trees, marking each trunk with paint so the healthy ones beside them stay standing.
Environment
In the survival game you must fell three pines before nightfall, or your character has no shelter when the cold arrives.
Gaming
Trail crews fell dead trees along the route each spring, so hikers can reach the pass without climbing over trunks.
Travel
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Found in 4 published word lists
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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