8 sentences with 'branches'
Example sentences and phrases with the word branches and other words derived from it.
• « At first, cures were performed with tree branches or herbs and bamboo sticks, sulfur, reed mats or just moxas (hence the name of this ancient medical discipline, moxibustion). »
• « To aromatize some branches of fresh thyme and rosemary, and for the "spiciness" tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and strong mustard. »
• « When I reached the bushes, almost a meter high, my horse made such a sharp turn that some branches scratched my leg. For an instant I was glad I was wearing chaps. »
• « Soldiers and knights enlisted in the service of rival noble houses, which eventually fuelled a conflict within the royal family between two different branches, the Lancastrians and the Yorks. The result was a violent conflict over the crown called the War of the Roses, which lasted from 1455 to 1485. »
• « Thereafter, the two Habsburg branches were united in their Catholicism and their enmity towards France, but little else. »
• « Thus, what began as a protest movement against corruption within the Church quickly became a number of widespread and increasingly militant branches of Christianity itself. »
• « In the early 18th century, the various branches of European exploration and expansion converged in the Pacific Northwest of what later became the United States: in the 18th century, Russian trappers, French trappers, Spanish missionaries and English explorers arrived in what eventually became the American states of Washington and Oregon. »