How to Use brushy in a Sentence

brushy

adjective

• Such ticks tend to hang out in grassy, brushy, or wooded areas.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Don’t hike in overgrown brushy areas or on trails where ticks may hide.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• In June of 2019, the teen lured a woman to an overgrown brushy area near a former golfing range.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
• Flames that might have stayed close to the forest floor are climbing up crowded, brushy forests into the tree canopy.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
• Each spring on the brushy banks of the San Juan River, a bucket brigade assembles twice daily.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• To do so:3 Avoid areas where ticks live such as grassy, brushy, or wooded areas.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• The trail leads through some beautiful old-growth forest and across a brushy meadow along the way, with a couple of bonus viewpoints through the trees.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2021
• Most folks have only heard them, but sightings of the Canis latrans are not uncommon in the brushy trails of many area parks.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022
• The one reprieve is a brushy thicket of willows around the back side of Cape Nome, where the twiggy chutes break enough wind that the snow stays fluffy, speckled with animal tracks.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• They’re seated behind a tabletop, a brushy plane of pale and mottled yellow that takes up almost half the picture.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Pheasants, which are about the size and shape of a chicken, eat insects and seeds and live in mixed habitats like brushy meadows, hedgerows, marshes, and areas where woods and fields meet.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 1 Apr. 2021
• Any open, sunny hillsides with enough low grassy or brushy cover to hide a bunny are great bets now, too, as loafing rabbits will soak up the warm rays.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
• Later still, a nearly 10-foot-tall canvas in a thin cloud of brushy gray color is overlaid with a golden metallic grid.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• Sweet and very mildly drying on the palate with herbaceous notes of cut grass, brushy/forest floor, and vegetative flavors of green beans.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• After eight days, a volunteer spotted Johnson-Barr’s body in a brushy hollow outside the city.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
• In the video, Beyrer explains that Gilbert apparently wandered into a brushy marshland in which reeds can grow up to 12-feet high.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 13 May 2022
• The man continuing running through a brushy area and toward railroad tracks. Police discharged their Taser, but only one probe hit the man’s coat.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
• Beaver ponds with brushy cover offer good hunting, as do overgrown farm fields, old apple orchards, and young forests near water.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• The 31-year-old victim was shot in her foot shortly after 10 p.m. in a brushy ravine behind a car dealership on College Boulevard near Plaza Drive, police said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Some hikers prefer a snugger fit to prevent snagging when hiking in brushy areas.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• Cropfields divided by overgrown fencelines and interspersed with brushy draws and small woodlots rolled on for thousands of acres around the reservoir.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
• The discussion becomes more complex for rural landowners who have to maintain fence lines, trails, and driveway edges and keep brushy weeds under control.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2021
• The dunes themselves, like much of northern Indiana, are mostly covered in brushy woodlands and lakeside grasses.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2022
• Korovin is showing Ivan in white tie, serious and formal but with a brushy finish suggesting a free spirit for a subject.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
• Fairfax County police are investigating the homicide of a 30-year-old man whose body was found Thursday under a brushy area.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
• Edge habitat — brushy areas where animals can stay close to cover — are also lively.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Without stricter prohibitions, Mr. Broderick said, new tract homes and cul-de-sacs will continue to push up into the brushy hills, and towns will be left to try to mitigate the danger.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• Desert grasses mingled with brushy chaparral dominate the lower slopes of Apache Pass with oak, juniper and piñon woodlands spread across higher ground.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• So be aware of where ticks like to hang out (in grassy, brushy, and wooded areas, as well as on animals) and take care to avoid those areas when possible (by staying in the middle of a hiking trail, for instance).
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 17 Mar. 2022
• In the meantime, health experts recommend the following steps to help protect yourself and your family from ticks: Avoid wooded and brushy areas with high grass and leaf litter; walk in the center of trails.
  — Ashley Welch, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024