What is "weeping willows"

Usage examples of "weeping willows".

Near the river were groves of majestic flabellaria fan palms and weeping willows.

Everywhere silver firs and weeping willows, red maples and birches, dropping leaf after leaf.

On the far bank lay some weeping willows whose branches dipped almost down to the water.

He remembered days when his father had taken him to fish for trout in Dewflood Stream, where the weeping willows bent low over the water and green inchworms hung from the willow branches on silken threads, taunting the trout.

The weeping willows were bare but still massive and threw up their twisted arms like women in grief.

And, tossing their yellow locks, a row of weeping willows seemed about to tumble into the lake like glorious Swedish blondes racing down to bathe.

Once, a long time back, when her husband was away and the help more or less off for the day, they got drunk together, her and Shorty, under some weeping willows, drinking bourbon, seated in mammoth wooden armchairs built by an alcoholic local santo carver named Snuffy Ledoux, who had left town years ago (during the Smokey the Bear statue riot, in fact) to seek his fortune in the capital.

The trail continued beside the river, which at intervals widened into placid ponds reflecting weeping willows and reeds.

Their field ran between a pair of irrigation channels marked by the pale fronds of the weeping willows growing on their margins.

The houses were separated by tall hedges and lines of weeping willows.

The house overlooked the Potomac past a long, sloping back lawn dotted with birch, alder and the enormous pair of weeping willows that Michael had loved to climb when he was young.