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  • noun Plural form of woodland.

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Examples

  • Jake McCullough, a British neighbour at Boliqueime, told Correio da Manha that luxury cars were frequently seen driving up to the house, set in woodlands, where Mr Ross was allegedly tortured.

    British man recovering after 'kidnap and torture' in Portugal Giles Tremlett in Madrid 2010

  • Farmer Stovey, of the Grange, was the first man of that class who had ever assumed the right to pasture his sheep in Belton chase as the people around were still accustomed to call the woodlands of the estate.

    The Belton Estate 2004

  • As one of the nyphai, steeped in the elemental magicks of root and loam, the woodlands were her charge.

    Wit'ch Storm Clemens, James 1999

  • Seen in mass, and at a distance, the woodlands are a soft cinerous purple.

    Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • There is "ample room and verge enough" to run a fox down without any visit to the open country, and by degrees, as a true love of hunting comes upon you in place of a love of riding, you will learn to think that a day among the woodlands is a day not badly spent.

    Hunting Sketches Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Grange, was the first man of that class who had ever assumed the right to pasture his sheep in Belton chase as the people around were still accustomed to call the woodlands of the estate.

    The Belton Estate Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The woodlands is a planned community, and it is like someone said 'lets not leave any chain store or restaurant out' ...

    Home Theater Forum joomanji 2010

  • The boiler uses wood fuel from the estate woodlands, which is chipped in a stone barn, where it is seasoned to the correct moisture content.

    HX News and Sport 2009

  • The boiler uses wood fuel from the estate woodlands, which is chipped in a stone barn, where it is seasoned to the correct moisture content.

    HX News and Sport 2009

  • “ample room and verge enough” to run a fox down without any visit to the open country, and by degrees, as a true love of hunting comes upon you in place of a love of riding, you will learn to think that a day among the woodlands is a day not badly spent.

    Hunting Sketches 2004

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