How to Use felled in a Sentence

felled

adjective
  • The ground cover was thick with ferns, moss, felled trees, and other low-lying plants.
    — Greg Sullivan, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There's the accounting of how many felled trees have struck cars, ripped down roofs, and taken lives.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
  • With her eyes closed, Frenza straddles a huge felled tree covered in moss.
    — Agnieszka Szpila, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Arborists are always looking for places to drop ground-up branches, twigs, and leaves from felled trees.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 11 June 2026
  • The shoots from stumps of felled coast redwoods are each capable of becoming a full-size tree.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Fallen tree limbs and felled power lines could make driving dangerous.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 18 June 2026
  • The felled trees damaged several houses and cars, while winds knocked out power to thousands.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Unfortunately, the sap can only be accessed from a felled tree.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 25 May 2024
  • Their dog, a Jack Russell mix named Sparky, died when the house gave way — likely crushed by the felled roof.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Wood from a felled tree that was struck by lightning, for example, might be hand-carved into an armchair, its cracks filled with molten metal.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Up on his feet and out of his crease to take away the angle, the classic style of the day, Gilbert tumbled backward in a heap like a felled bull.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • All that work, just to be heartlessly felled like the Bishop Monkton cockerel?
    — Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Approximately 50 gallons of hydraulic fluid spilled on the site from the felled crane.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The team also took advantage of the felled eucalyptus, placing the stumps throughout the yard as seating for people and pups.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills.
    — Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Scared and angry, vigilante groups are blocking off their neighborhoods with felled trees and chains, killing and burning outsiders suspected of gang membership.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But Seton explained the closure was necessary after the property sustained damage from a felled tree and mudslides during last year’s storms.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
  • Novander said the trail project will include restoration of areas disturbed by the project, including potentially replacing felled trees.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Looking surprised by her own impulsivity, the wingless bird of paradise giggle-fusses over our felled friend until a bouncer muscles in to disentangle them.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Using a short boom like a claw in an arcade machine, Barcellos and his team worked for more than 20 hours, pulling out felled trees, heavy sediments, even a washing machine from the turbulent waters.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The storm marked the tail of a major atmospheric river that wreaked havoc on the unhoused community and trapped a 73-year-old in her North Sacramento tent under a felled tree.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • More than 7,000 people remain without power in Georgia's White County after the weekend's ice storm toppled trees and felled power lines.
    — Cbs News Atlanta, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The family on the felled flight is part of the Huitoto Indigenous community, one of more than 87 officially recognized Indigenous groups in Colombia.
    — Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
  • Other environmental impacts Expanding logging operations also comes with environmental concerns, including how felled trees could release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025

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