How do you use the word "branch" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "branch" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "branch": We decided to branch out into selling some foodstuffs. The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.

Branch Meaning

/bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

nounAny of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

Sentence Examples

We decided to branch out into selling some foodstuffs.

The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

leg fork subdivision

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The squirrel jumped from one tree ____ to another to escape the dog.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The large ____ of the oak tree hung low over the quiet garden path.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”). The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing." — 1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:

"And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]" — 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:

"his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock" — 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:

"The gens could admit a new cognomen either for an individual or for a whole branch […]" — 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:

"We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year." — 2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:

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