Levels vary from simply removing dead limbs to fine shaping.

He studied the area, trying to make himself see only the patterns in the dead limbs and faces.

Then he caught a little movement on top of a dead limb.

They finished it with a stack of dead limbs and brush that no animal could get through.

The top of the Sherman is a dead limb that at one time served as a new leader.

I felt my very soul growing numb and heavy like a dead limb.

I went over to where he was working on a pile of dead limbs.

Then he picked up a dead limb at least a meter long.

Remember that place where a pine on the bank had been struck by lightning, and a bush was growing out of the dead limb?

One dead and one less sound limb between us, when we have too few to go around already.