How to Use burning bush in a Sentence

burning bush

noun

• The prophet Elijah’s encounter with God involved a cave, Dosick notes, and Moses had a burning bush.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2021
• Best planted in the fall or spring, burning bush grows at a moderate pace, adding about a foot of growth per year.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
• He’s like a prophet who has seen the burning bush, but nobody believes in burning bushes.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
• Some were simply impossible, like pieces of straw from the manger or ashes from the burning bush that spoke to Moses.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• The tower’s height prompts comparisons with the Tower of Babel, its blinding light with the burning bush.
  — Patrick Kingsley Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• The voice from the burning bush, but instead of a bush, the message was coming from that marvelous smile, the familiar, kind eyes, the perfect hair — and that twinkle.
  — Alexander Chee, Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
• Similarly, God first appears to Moshe in a burning bush telling him to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 12 Sep. 2017
• And most of us don’t get burning bushes, seas divided in two or even our neighbors showing up with $8,000 and a bottle of wine.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• The invasiveness of burning bush has led to major movements to exclude it from the landscape trade.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2017
• There are also shrubs to avoid such as burning bush, privet and nandina, which are some of the worst non-native shrubs, the experts said.
  — Nina Tran, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
• One text worth recalling in this regard is the Book of Exodus, and in particular the scene in which God appears to Moses at the burning bush.
  — Robert F. Barsky, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
• Three students steam-bent the branches of burning bush into curved shapes and then lashed them together with kudzu fibers to create an arched structure.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Those have a burning bush design and were made from microsuede, a quarter-inch-thick synthetic fabric that is now hard to find.
  — Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• After killing a slave master, Moses flees into the desert, and encounters a burning bush of God revealing himself to Moses.
  — Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• In a foundational scene of monotheism, Moses doffs his kicks to approach the burning bush; shoes are, by their pedestrian nature, unfit for holy ground.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• Its grand opening will feature live music, face painting and free refreshments, plus plenty of docents will be on hand to field your burning bush queries.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• To get the fall color of burning bush without the ecological destruction, go with chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) instead.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2021
• Not miracles like a burning bush or a docile teenager, but highly improbable objects.
  — Seth Shostak, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2011
• Examples are amur maple, burning bush, lily-of-the-valley, orange daylily, creeping bellflower and various barberry.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• The burning bush, never consumed by the fire, is symbolic in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other faiths including Baha’i.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• For many years there has been a burning bush variety quietly circulating around the nursery and botanical garden businesses.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2017
• No caterpillars on the Oriental bittersweet, the multiflora rose, the Japanese honeysuckle, on the burning bush that lined his neighbor’s driveway.
  — Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• The list includes English ivy, porcelain berry, bush and vining honeysuckles, ailanthus, Japanese viburnums, burning bush and wisterias.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
• Here are a few suggestions for deciduous shrubs in the Northwest: western serviceberry, western burning bush, western redbud, and pacific ninebark.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2021
• Many common ornamental plants, such as Japanese barberry and burning bush, create serious environmental problems in natural areas outside your garden.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 2 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024