bough
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One of them, photographer Tim Laman, had tied a line to an arrow and shot it over a high bough.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Stuntman Hurd McClellan had strapped on a bulletproof vest and swung like a pendulum suspended from a tree bough as news accounts said Semmelmeyer shot him several times without mishap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
There wasn't a single twinkling light or even a scrap of a pine bough, all the way from the subway station to her building.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
He ducked under the bough, ran clumsily, then stopped and listened.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
These designers like to bring in fragrant boughs of cedar to scent their spaces.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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