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The bank has branches all over the country.

But the branch of historical linguistics, involves the comparison of several different languages, or the comparison of different stages of a single language.

Anyway, snowflakes have a particular form, there’s a six-sided center with six branches or arms that radiate out from it.

A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree.

But it is obviously very simplified, having a whole language represented by just one branch on a tree doesn't really do justice to all the variations within that language.

And the Native American people were all adept at running very fast over the snow in these birch branch snowshoes, which if you ever tried walking in snowshoes you know it wasn't easy.

The accident happened where the road branches.

When you reach the village green, the street branches into two.

The mother language, is the line on the top of this diagram, over time, it branches off into new daughter languages, which branch into daughter languages of their own, and languages that have the same source, the same mother, are called sisters.

And Proto-Indo-European branched out into other languages, which evolved into others, so in the end, many languages spoken all over the world today can trace their ancestry back to one language, Proto-Indo-European, which was spoken several thousand years ago.

Divers found this jacket hanging from a branch.

Various committees acted as an executive branch, implementing policies of the assembly and supervising, for instance, the food and water supplies and public buildings.