How to use "branches" in a sentence

There was a tree on the other side of the wall, and Valjean carried Cosette down into its branches just as the soldiers arrived.

Only a little sunlight came through their thick branches

It hissed through the branches of a nearby date palm.

He stepped from beneath the sheltering branches of the trees

At least half of the people who worked for it did not even realize it existed; some thought they were employed by the FBI; others were sure they worked for the CIA; and still others believed that they were in the hire of various branches of the Treasury Department, including the Secret Service

This time I noticed some more small branches were broken