How to Use undergrowth in a Sentence

undergrowth

noun

• Hunters use wire snares set in the undergrowth to catch and strangle the deer.
  — National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
• Hunters use wire snares set in the undergrowth to catch and strangle the deer.
  — John Wendle, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
• The trail might as well have been painted on the undergrowth.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2020
• Thick, dry undergrowth was on one side of the tracks, rice-fields on the other.
  — David Fettling, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
• In the distance, three young does picked their way through the undergrowth.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• There was a good deal of yelling and crashing around in the undergrowth, and then the two climbed back into the tree.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The old-timers knew that without fire, the pitchers would get choked out by the undergrowth.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The forest closed around us; a deer shuddered through the undergrowth.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• The undergrowth is shorter, and the goats have nibbled away the leaves on the bottom branches of the buckthorn trees.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2020
• The sign was forgotten in the years after the war and hidden by shrubs and undergrowth.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2018
• The land also had several years worth of pine straw, small limbs and undergrowth piled up around the trees.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Police found the body of the girl buried among thick undergrowth near a single-track railway line.
  — Timothy Jones, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
• On the land side, the undergrowth was too dense to walk in, but these paths had been kept open for years by hikers and fishermen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• When the flames char the undergrowth on hills and mountains, the soil can’t hold water as easily.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• Birds cartwheeled around me, flitting from trees to undergrowth, sometimes close enough to touch.
  — Brian Mann, NPR, 15 June 2024
• The burn is a few years old, with enough undergrowth to make hiking difficult.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 4 Nov. 2020
• Muntjac deer have eaten the undergrowth where nightingales once nested in the forests near my home, and now those birds have gone.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• In existing openings, hook up the sprayer to your UTV or set one in the bed, and hit the weeds and other undergrowth with a round of herbicide.
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
• The film starts with a young girl, Maia, dashing through the undergrowth in a moonlit wood, her heart racing in sync with the rhythm of the natural world.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 July 2024
• Promising leads have vanished like a cactus mouse in the undergrowth.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
• Erosion from rain and snowmelt is now the risk there, with the great threat looming not so much from fire, but from the winter and spring to come, with little undergrowth to hold the soil in place.
  — Kirk Johnson, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Sep. 2017
• A half-dozen javelinas, a kind of peccary, scampered in the thick undergrowth.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• Most of the homes there are half-hidden in the undergrowth, after 25 years of nature reclaiming the landscape.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• Even a small fire can wipe out a rainforest’s undergrowth.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Winds gusting through a vast tinderbox of undergrowth made the fire balloon in size and merge with a smaller blaze.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2021
• To discourage coyotes in your area, clear brush and undergrowth in the yard that can provide cover for them.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
• The wood, with its tangled undergrowth and hidden German machine gun nests, was the stuff of nightmares.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 28 May 2018
• Among firefighters there is no doubt that the root cause of the rapid spread of fires is rampant undergrowth, which is expensive to clear for plots of a hectare or less.
  — Axel Bugge, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2017
• Sequoias even rely on fire to help open their cones to disperse seeds, and flames clear undergrowth so seedlings can take root and get sunlight.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
• Woodrats build giant nests by dragging thousands of sticks across yards of dense undergrowth.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024