How to Use bushy in a Sentence

bushy

adjective
  • Some trimmed their bushy beards and changed their clothes in efforts to blend in.
    Andrew Katz, TIME.com, 17 July 2017
  • Leto also seemed to have shaved off the bushy beard he’s been sporting on tour with the rock band for the last few months.
    Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • By the end, Mr. Barrymore’s beard hangs on his chest like a great bushy bib.
    Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 25 June 2017
  • And, of course those bushy, overgrown October beards are a sure sign of the postseason.
    Janie McCauley, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Needleleaf evergreens, such as firs, spruces, and pines, should be pruned to maintain a compact shape with thick, bushy branches.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The second suspect was described as a male in his 20s, about 5-foot-7 with bushy black hair that is tapered on the sides.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Some evergreens, such as dense, bushy cedars and thorny-leaved hollies, offer birds a twofer: berries as well as protection from weather and predators.
    Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
  • But unfortunately, there's no product or technique that Lucy uses to get her iconic bushy look.
    Evelyn Wang, Allure, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Dada tenderly plaits Hussainia’s bushy hair into neat cornrows.
    TIME.com, 27 June 2017
  • The plant is very bushy and grows to a height of 18 inches.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Princess the cat’s tail was bushy with fright, and Fluffy the dog was barking.
    Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
  • Like any 17-year-old kid who's still dealing with acne and craving for a bushier mustache than the sparse style he's got, Rocco Posca is battling the end of his adolescence with rock and roll.
    Billboard Argentina, Billboard, 9 July 2017
  • The squirrel’s is big and bushy, the rat’s is naked, scaly, and wormlike.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 8 July 2022
  • Eyebrow trends have ranged from thin and long to thick and bushy.
    Julia Naftulin, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The name comes from Love’s reddish-blonde hair and Brown’s bushy beard.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • There was a young man who wore a turban and a soft bushy beard.
    Celeste Ng, Bon Appétit, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Since then, the trees have bounced back, their tops bushy green, though their trunks are still charred.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • So if Austin has bushy ‘60s hair then maybe Dr. Evil should have no hair.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 11 June 2019
  • Commuters will notice the bushy 15-foot-tall plants in fields around the metro area.
    Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • Dads with bushy beards and in Red Wing boots push $1,400 Bugaboo strollers.
    Lysandra Ohrstrom, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2021
  • But maybe that’s where the bushy sideburns came in useful.
    Lawrence Weschler, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The stems are medium-short, and the bush is medium-small, rounded and bushy.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • To keep the plants more bushy than lanky, pinch them back in spring and early summer.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • That could put the swarms in India’s bushy center very soon.
    New York Times, 27 May 2020
  • Rows of big and bushy plants, their long limbs heavy with flowers, dot the landscape.
    oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
  • When my boy is old enough to chase bushy tails with me, this will be his rifle.
    Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The plant forms bushy, upright clumps about 18 inches tall and wide.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • By the end of summer, the mounded plants grow bushy and can reach 18-24 inches wide.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Before the mask, the ends of my hair were brittle and bushy, yet now my curls are super-defined and soft.
    Esther Newman, refinery29.com, 28 May 2024
  • Garnish with two mint crowns (the top of the plant) twisted together to form a bushy mint explosion on top.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024

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