How to Use underbrush in a Sentence

underbrush

noun

• We made our way through the thick underbrush.
• To step off the trail and find his way through the underbrush.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2020
• The remnants of the work canal are also still there, off in the underbrush to the east of the oak alley.
  — Andrew Boyd, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• There was a sudden rustling in the dry underbrush and a flash of color.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2021
• They were told to hide in the underbrush and await the return of the smugglers, who never came back.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 30 July 2017
• Movement was everywhere – in the thick underbrush, along the trunks of plants and trees, up in the canopy of leaves.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The burrs and thorns from the underbrush wouldn’t be removed from our shoes and clothing for weeks.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• Avoid tall grass, weeds and heavy underbrush where snakes may hide during warmer parts of the day.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 9 May 2018
• The trail traces the rim of the small canyon before plunging through mixed forest heavy with underbrush.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• Fresh snow lined the mountaintops and the rising sun sparkled through the low underbrush lining the trail.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
• The plan will speed up projects to clear dense forest underbrush that has fanned raging fires near the world's largest trees.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
• To the left, the woods were dense and unruly, a tangle of wayward underbrush and fallen tree limbs.
  — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
• There isn’t a single water hazard on the course and, while there are lots of trees, the underbrush is not very thick.
  — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
• Large eyes with more rod than cone cells allow the night-hunting birds to spot prey rustling in the underbrush, even in dim light.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
• Deep in the dark North Carolina woods, a small white light flickers in the heavy underbrush.
  — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2019
• The other, wounded in the arm and back, fled for miles through forest and underbrush and is now in hiding.
  — Scott Wallace, National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2019
• Such is the case with the Neches River, which curls through thick forest and underbrush in East Texas.
  — Michael Barnes, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• There’s no one crashing through the underbrush, looking for the idol within view of camp.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Boy moose galloped within a few feet of me and then was gone, off into the underbrush.
  — Dara Dokas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• The terrain was rocky, dusty and uneven, mixed with rough underbrush.
  — Peter Prengaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday had a piquant bit of business that seems to have come out of the underbrush of that very trail.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 May 2017
• Others tried to dart past the patrols through thickets of underbrush and trees.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2021
• In the worst-case scenario, flames pushed by afternoon winds swarm through the underbrush.
  — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
• The district is starting to have the underbrush cleared and trees survey for Middle School No.
  — Savannah Mehrtens, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2020
• After a week’s worth of rustling in the offensive underbrush, things went silent once again.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
• If there are no fires, the underbrush and trees grow to fuel even bigger wildfires.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019
• The greatest areas of concern are on the Hillside and the city’s green spaces, where trees and underbrush are the thickest.
  — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2019
• Most days, Scales avoids this stretch of road outside Boonville, where a 2-foot-tall white cross and flowers are nestled in the underbrush.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, Indianapolis Star, 21 Sep. 2017
• Lightning strikes can ignite leaf litter on the forest floor, clearing out the underbrush without killing the trees.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• Invader rummaged in the underbrush, trying to find a pair of polypropylene supermarket totes, filled with supplies, that Mr. Blue had tossed out of the van on an earlier run past the site.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024