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Example sentences for "bushes"

Lexicographically close words:
bushed; bushel; bushell; bushells; bushels; bushing; bushings; bushmen; bushranger; bushrangers
  1. They nest in colonies, building in bushes and laying in April 3-5 bluish white eggs, strikingly blotched and scrawled with blackish.

  2. The nest is sometimes placed in pines about 30 feet up, but also in bushes and even in holes in trees.

  3. The nest is built in briars or bushes within a foot or two of the ground.

  4. The nest is placed in bushes or among reeds.

  5. The Catbird nests in bushes and thickets laying 3-5 greenish blue eggs in May.

  6. The nest is usually built in bushes and the 3-4 pale bluish white eggs are laid in May.

  7. The nest is placed on the ground or in bushes in late May or early June.

  8. Wilson's Warbler, a flycatching Warbler of the lower growth, favors bushes near water, but is also found in dryer places.

  9. The Olive-back nests in bushes or low trees, and lays 3-4 greenish blue brown-spotted eggs in June.

  10. Usually the Song Sparrow is found near water and not far from bushes into which he flies when alarmed.

  11. It builds in bushes and low trees, laying 3-4 bluish white, brown-spotted eggs in May.

  12. The bird places the nest low down in the crotch of one of the bushes among which it lives and lays 3-4 white, brown-spotted eggs in June.

  13. We must content ourselves with this little hill where a few hawthorn bushes offer us tiny islets of shade, beset with thorns, and separated by straits of intolerable glare.

  14. The country, at first, was wild and barren, a wilderness of rocks and thorn bushes and stunted scrub oaks.

  15. Surely yes, for the broom bushes grew close to the path to Garthowen, and over that path she was constantly passing and repassing, whether in daylight or starlight or moonlight.

  16. I would willingly have thrown it over the docks, if that would blot out one evening behind the broom bushes at Garthowen, and one night when I saw a sight which spoilt my life.

  17. I will wait for thee behind the broom bushes on the edge of the cliff.

  18. A great head, with wide, dangerous looking horns, had appeared above a clump of bushes not far away.

  19. Agnes, "I only hope he stays there till that snake comes out of the bushes again and climbs into his cart.

  20. They did not see any other blackberry bushes in the vicinity.

  21. The disturbance in the bushes was repeated, and the children tried to run.

  22. Not only was there this clump of berry bushes which they had first sighted; but back of the wall was a great field, rocky and barren otherwise, but a fine berry pasture.

  23. Just then, before either Tess or Dot could make a rejoinder, they broke through the bushes and entered a beautiful little park in which was pitched the Gypsy camp.

  24. It was weed-grown for the most part; but there were berry bushes loaded with dew-berries and raspberries, both black and red; besides ripening gooseberries and currants.

  25. And, besides, after their recent experience, they would have been only the more disturbed had they been aware that the thrashing in the bushes was Sukey, getting ready to go up to the bars to be milked.

  26. We don't want to scratch the car all up in those bushes and on those stumps.

  27. The bushes were overhanging the steep wall of the ravine on one side.

  28. The bushes in question overhung the bank above their heads.

  29. They grow these things on bushes right out yonder in the fields.

  30. The banks are so steep, and descend so abruptly, that the beeches and sycamores, which appear like scrubby bushes from the neighbouring fields, are in reality forest trees rising from the sides of the burn.

  31. Sometimes those ruts were so deep that the tops of the blueberry bushes and weeds on those ridges scratched the bottom of the buggy.

  32. For example, the one nearest the lilac bushes was laid out in a sort of checkerboard pattern of squares, one square containing a certain sort of old-fashioned flower and its neighbors other varieties.

  33. He jumped again, and this brought his ancient broadside into contact with the bushes by the edge of the road.

  34. Beyond the little garden and between the raspberry and currant bushes he caught a glimpse of the path and the gate through which he had just come on his way back from the grounds of the Fair Harbor.

  35. For the bushes along the side of the path were moving as if they were being brushed aside by someone in passing--someone making a straight line to the spot where they lay concealed.

  36. Charred stumps remained to show where it had fired bushes beyond the trail.

  37. In an instant out of the bushes popped something big and black and shaggy, and the rabbit, taking one look at it, saw that it was a big dog.

  38. And on the way a big, ugly fox leaped out of the bushes and tried to eat up all the chickens, and Uncle Wiggily also.

  39. And in about a minute they heard something flying through the bushes and out flew that same cowbird, and she laughed just as hard as she could laugh, as she passed along.

  40. I have been wanting a rabbit dinner this long time," and with that out from the bushes crawled the bad fox.

  41. Uncle Wiggily knew what was happening, out from behind the bushes jumped the skillery-scallery-tailery alligator, gnashing his teeth.

  42. And, just as he said that, what should happen but that a black, savage, ugly bear stuck his nose out of the bushes and made a grab for the rabbit.

  43. And then the noise became louder and out from the bushes popped a big animal.

  44. Then, all at once there was a crashing in the bushes and it sounded like an elephant coming through, breaking all the sticks in his path.

  45. There was a great crashing as some big animal broke his way through the bushes in front of him.

  46. If I can only get behind that clump of bushes back of them without their seeing me, I'll take their picture.

  47. Each boy pointed his arrow toward where we could see the bear standing still behind some bushes and only a part, of him showing.

  48. Then all of a sudden Hank stood up above the bushes he had told us about.

  49. Skinny had come up and I was just asking him if he had seen Benny, when we heard a great crashing through the bushes and in a minute he came in sight, running like sixty.

  50. We couldn't see Hank, but knew that he was somewhere in the bushes taking their picture.

  51. We could hear a crashing through the bushes beyond, and knew that what Benny said was true.

  52. Then, getting the rope ready to throw, with the slip noose working easily, he parted the bushes gently and crept through.

  53. Then, all of a sudden, he heard a crackling in the bushes on the other side of a clearing, and he felt sure that his chance had come.

  54. It was stepping around in the bushes and I heard it grunt.

  55. Finally Bill caught sight of the bag in some bushes and yelled: "Deer!

  56. Many years ago a shepherd, following some stray of his flock, penetrated into the mouth of one of those caves whose entrances are covered by thick growths of bushes and whose outlets no man has ever seen.

  57. Their huts were constructed of a few bushes of grease-wood, piled up as a sort of breakwind, in which they huddled in their filthy skins.

  58. Close by me was a field of cotton, the bushes being as high as my head.

  59. The bushes were thick, and they noticed nothing, and kept on at the same pace.

  60. Bushes for thatching could be found in abundance.

  61. Did he go between the bushes to get to the sidewalk on Patton Street, or do you know?

  62. Did you see him go through any bushes by your house or not?

  63. As Elmira's green skirts fluttered out of sight behind some lilac-bushes pluming to the wind with purple blossoms Jerome came in, and his mother turned to him.

  64. So it befell that Jerome went for the work that brought him daily bread, like a thief, by night, oftentimes slipping his package of shoes under the wayside bushes at the sound of approaching footsteps.

  65. Some tall bushes that covered the top of a slight elevation near by were suddenly parted, and a man, wearing the uniform of a Lieutenant in the Confederate army, leaped down among the astonished revelers.

  66. So he crouched low under a clump of bushes and waited.

  67. At length she stopped and began scratching at the roots of some bushes till she laid bare a skull.

  68. The birds were twittering in the bushes and hopping round him, and high up over the tops of the mountains an eagle was soaring.

  69. The first thing to be done was to get Sam to serve as his guide, for many years had passed since his adventure, and the trees and bushes would have grown thickly about the hole.

  70. I could only expect the Roman legions to be encamped down there; and the white goats feeding on the bushes belonged to a Roman camp.

  71. Cockchafers are found humming round the bushes at about dusk on a summer evening, and everywhere, and sometimes in cowdung; are a capital bait for chub, though not for anything else.

  72. It is very usual to breed it in ponds, but naturally, like many others of the carp tribe, it is generally found in lakes and still waters; its favourite haunts are in places well shaded with bushes or rushes.

  73. However, from along the bushes on either side fresh assailants poured out.

  74. The whole Russian column as it fell back was maintaining a wild fire at random into the bushes around them.

  75. As for the Russians, those who fell on the plateau received equal care with the allies; but far down among the bushes that covered the hillside lay hundreds of wounded wretches whom no succor, that day at least, could be afforded.

  76. There are plenty of bushes at the cross-roads, and we shall be able to hide there without difficulty.

  77. Just outside of the tepees, were some bushes where the magpies had gathered and were chattering together, enjoying the beautiful sunshine.

  78. In what other resting-place could Cleft-Lip have dreamed a sleep more undisturbed than on these beds of wool that the breeze spread beneath the flower-covered bushes of the stars?

  79. Give back to me the agitation that I felt when suddenly a shot swept the fragrant mint beneath my bounds, or when amid the bushes of wild quince my nose touched the cold copper of a snare.

  80. Most of the hazel bushes on our farm grew along the fences as if they had been planted for the chipmunks alone, for the rail fences were their favorite highways.

  81. Not like other trees and bushes do they rustle in the rain.

  82. How those old elder bushes writhe as they resist the storm's ravages.

  83. These oscillated like the moods of the girl herself, like the weather on an April day, like the light summer clouds scudding over Prague and the elderflower and lilac bushes of Beth-Chaim.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.