How to Use bramble in a Sentence

bramble

noun

• The goats will eat the brambles and poop on the lawn; the nutrients will go back into the soil.
  — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• The vines, brambles and saplings growing where fields and pastures once stood pull the piles of stones apart.
  — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• Learning how to spot their glint of colour, even in the deepest reaches of the brambles.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• The state stopped maintaining it in 2010, and the land lies covered in brambles, mud and rocks.
  — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, 16 June 2019
• Netting and brambles are laid over the top in places to obscure the contours.
  — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The path to Cho’s cardamom wove upward through waist-high brambles that scratched at my bare legs.
  — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
• The rest of it is berries left in the bramble after a visit from midday starlings.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• They are now buried in the local cemetery under stones and brambles.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Foliage and brambles line the lip of the trench to obscure its contours to attackers.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The project to transform a stretch of Boise Greenbelt into a pocket park began with a walk through the brambles.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 5 May 2017
• Then, from thorny bramble, the wildcat exhales in a guttural hiss.
  — Leigh Ann Henion, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• The next morning a railroad worker spotted the girl’s partly clad body in a bramble of ivy.
  — oregonlive, 15 May 2020
• Last year, as the crusts of snow retreated behind my house, a pair of Sandhill Cranes began to stalk the brambles.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Magic promotes the encroachment of the brambles, a kind of killer kudzu that puts those who touch it into a death-like sleep.
  — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• Garden gloves are a great way to protect yourself from thorns, brambles, and scratchy plants—and keep your hands cleaner, too.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
• Brambles and bushes carpeted old orchard lands on sides of the trail.
  — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
• Across a gurgling brook, up a muddy slope, over mossy tree limbs, through a tangle of brambles and vines, the dogs covered acres of terrain.
  — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• So grab a shotgun and work over every tangle of hedgerow brush and field-edge bramble, and stomp on every pile of timber slash.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
• Right out of the glass is smoky bacon, a meaty iodine and some earthy bramble—all pleasingly followed onto the palate.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• The recordings are still cryptic, a hazy bramble of ambience.
  — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• Adding to the embarrassment, the rocket landed in a swamp and the team members had to wade out through the bugs and brambles to recover the wayward rocket.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
• The team stocked the foraging area with blackberry bramble and filled the surrounding moat with water to help keep the ants contained.
  — Emily Anthes Todd Heisler, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
  — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• That’s a fair question, even though its fatuousness should have sent Will fleeing into the brambles.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 May 2019
• The narrow footway was a good place to spot herons and it was surrounded with brambles so thick that two people could barely walk side-by-side.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
• In June 2019, a Guatemalan mother, her toddler son and two other young children died of exposure in a thick bramble near McAllen.
  — Dudley Althaus, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2021
• Last summer saw the falling of the brambles before the axes of men, saw the reclamation of the old house by industrious women.
  — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
• That wasn't an issue in my gnarly test bramble, which is usually mowed by a tractor the size of a Victorian manor.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2019
• Homesteads fan out into the hilly bramble, connected by rugged paths.
  — Annie Lowrey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
• Farmers, who had been living in tents, used herbicides and pesticides on the plants and had surrounded the pot field with piles of twigs and brambles to conceal the area.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017

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