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Example sentences for "shrubbery"

Lexicographically close words:
shrouds; shrowd; shrowded; shrub; shrubberies; shrubby; shrubs; shrug; shrugged; shrugging
  1. And now we approach a rustic inn by the roadside, rich in shrubbery before it, and green moss from ridge-pole to low drooping eaves, where we change horses.

  2. All of the path through the shrubbery that she could see was empty.

  3. She walked quickly across the lawn with the easy, graceful gait proper to the accomplished golfer she was, into the shrubbery on the other side of it.

  4. But when they came out of the shrubbery into the moonlit aisle of the wood, the fearfulness and anxiety and restlessness had vanished utterly from their faces; both of them were smiling.

  5. Grace kept her place at the window, from a feeling she could not define, and of which perhaps she was unconscious, until the gate closed, and the shrubbery hid the sportsman from her sight, and then she withdrew to her room to weep.

  6. Almost concealed by the shrubbery which surrounded its piazza, stood the forms of the Countess of Pendennyss and her sister Lady Marian, watching eagerly the appearance of those whose approach was thus announced.

  7. With that he walked quickly away from me and was soon hidden in the shrubbery at the end of the walk.

  8. I turned sharp round—towards the house, suddenly somehow afraid to go into the shrubbery with him; his voice had sounded curious.

  9. As he passed down the steps, he heard the burly guest emptying soiled water from his wash-bowl out of a window upon the shrubbery below.

  10. Fireflies were flitting over the corn and about the shrubbery bordering the walk to the house.

  11. He'd give his right arm to have you agree to--" But Mary had vanished into the hall and with lowered head was scudding through the shrubbery to the barn.

  12. From the outskirts of the city it rose gradually, its sides grown thick with rich grass, and dotted here and there with spreading shrubbery and drooping trees.

  13. Fires gleamed up and down through the shrubbery and the refugees sat huddled together about the flames, with their blankets about their heads, Apache-like, in an effort to dry out after the wetting of the afternoon.

  14. Almost in a moment the green mantle of woodland and shrubbery was torn away and death and destruction left where peace and safety had seemed assured.

  15. If we reach it unobserved we can creep through the mass of flowers and shrubbery to a large fishpond which lies just beyond it.

  16. You're a good swimmer, as I know--and you can swim along its edge until you reach the shrubbery on the other side.

  17. He stood boldly erect now, unafraid of observation, and picked a way through the mass of broken glass and overturned shrubbery toward the end of the conservatory, seeing beyond it a gleam of water which must be the big fishpond.

  18. Almost every dwelling has before it a fine court-yard filled with shrubbery and ornamented with flowers.

  19. He rushed outside and examined the shrubbery around the Cabin.

  20. Avenue of Palms Quality of light brings out color detail; fine display of flowers; massing of shrubbery at base of wall, and tall trees casting vertical shadows.

  21. Our lawn was spacious for a town, filled with shrubbery and trees, both evergreen and deciduous.

  22. They seem to prefer rather small trees and low ones, nesting in orchard trees and in ornamental shrubbery as well as in shade trees.

  23. The two approached the flowering shrubbery where Tarzan hid, but as the blooms grew plentifully upon every bush the ape-man guessed there would be no necessity for them to enter the patch far enough to discover him.

  24. A man's voice spoke in English from the shrubbery upon the opposite side of the stream.

  25. There was thick shrubbery in which a man might hide, and water and fruits.

  26. Here he found a patch of flowering shrubbery that might safely have concealed a dozen men.

  27. As Tarzan sat within the concealing foliage of the shrubbery meditating upon the hideous priest-mask which he held in his hands he became aware that he was not alone in the garden.

  28. Altogether then, he decided, night furnished the most propitious hours for his investigation--by day he could lie up in the shrubbery of the Forbidden Garden, reasonably free from detection.

  29. Barns and out-houses were plentiful, trees and shrubbery were plentiful.

  30. Behind him looms up the huge mountain, amid whose rugged rocks and green shrubbery much of his time will be spent.

  31. They were walking up and down the walk they had named years ago "the shrubbery path.

  32. He had found her in the shrubbery path in the old days when she used to walk up and down and dream her girlish dreams.

  33. Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, overgrown with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed.

  34. Elder-trees and other wild shrubbery wind around this wall.

  35. They did not come so much later on when the leaves had fallen, and now that the shrubbery has been thinned they do not come at all in any numbers.

  36. In spring I have heard 30 or more all singing together in this same shrubbery as late as April 2nd.

  37. When the sun sets you all walk out, dispersing in the shrubbery or on the banks.

  38. The front of the café is a neat little terrace off the street, screened by a fanciful net-work of vines and shrubbery that spring from green painted boxes and that conceal cosey little tables and corners placed behind them.

  39. In the shrubbery ahead of him, a figure moved--Kus Dorken.

  40. Tal Bock was somewhere in that shrubbery too, where, Ronson didn't know.

  41. He got up and walked into the shrubbery behind him.

  42. A small terrier used to start a rabbit nearly every morning, at the end of the shrubbery next the house, and hunt him through the whole length of it to the other end, where the rabbit escaped into an old drain.

  43. When he left the shrubbery he had only a few yards of open lawn to cross and the light was dim beside the house, but he kept off the graveled terrace until he was abreast of the door.

  44. The sun was setting behind the moors when they came down the waterside, and leaving Pete in the gloom of the fir wood, he walked through a shrubbery to the house.

  45. We pretend that there are, and even while we pretend dusk falls and the shrubbery has to be passed, and we are not certain whether there are not robbers there, after all.

  46. The woods on the top of the Ledge were level and consisted of much shrubbery and some large hardwood trees and a few hemlocks and pines.

  47. To the west I saw an indigo bird flitting about some shrubbery by the stone fence, which attracted me that way.

  48. Then, with a wild cry of fear, he sprang away through the shrubbery and escaped.

  49. Several men were there, too, lying flat, peering underneath the shrubbery toward the house.

  50. All the men in the shrubbery had sprung to their feet, and were running wildly about.

  51. They were no sooner out of sight than three men sped from the shrubbery across the yard, and, seizing Ted by the heels and shoulders, ran back with him into the place of concealment.

  52. Then shield me from shots from the shrubbery on the opposite side of the garden.

  53. He was firing toward the shrubbery as he ran, and those on guard inside heard yells of agony.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrubbery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arboretum; bed; border; bramble; briar; brier; bush; garden; herbarium; paradise; scrub; shrub; shrubbery; vineyard