bush - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • overgrow: He agreed and two weeks ago discovered the joys of speeding humps, raised slabs, potholes and overgrown bushes.
  • overhang: Time fished roach dead bait close to overhanging bushes.
  • prune: June or July is the best time to prune raspberry bushes.
  • trim: This kind of damage often comes from parking your car into undergrowth, be sure to trim back bushes from your driveway.

Adjective modifier

  • thorny: Running she tore her dress on a thorny bush revealing all her beauty.
  • mulberry: Japanese tissue, a thin yet extremely strong paper made from mulberry bushes, is used to repair brittle or damaged documents.
  • prickly: Plant wildlife-friendly vegetation, such as prickly bushes and thick climbers in the garden to provide secure cover for birds.
  • flowering: Evidence suggested that the murderer hid among flowering bushes in front of the Simpson home waiting for the victim.
  • scrubby: Scrubby oak bushes, typical of the Balkans, could be found on the slopes above the river valley.
  • lilac: On a lilac bush, the flowers appear in spikes.

Modifies a noun

  • tucker: Mom is holding some freshly hunted ' bush tucker ' lizards ( Aboriginal food ).
  • telegraph: The next morning we went in search of giraffe, and soon found one via the bush telegraph.
  • warbler: Picked SL bush warbler foraging the edge of the pond.
  • cricket: A note describing how armored bush crickets attack nestling red-billed quelea.

Noun used with modifier

  • gorse: It turned right with gorse bushes in the hedge giving extra color.
  • thorn: This involved tying the boat to a thorn bush!
  • gooseberry: It is clearly separate from the gooseberry bush it is growing out of.
  • holly: Or, how about the sound of a holly bush scraping past the players jacket.
  • hawthorn: Conventional harrows were ineffective on the rough terrain but harnessing Doug Joiner's horses to drag a severed hawthorn bush worked.
  • bramble: Runs ( center ) can be seen emerging from bramble bushes.

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