Example Sentences

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Boughs of cedar, white currant and flowering plum hung in bouquets from its corners, and its lip was decorated with prayer flags.

From New York Times • May 25, 2017

Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under Green Apple Boughs is how she did it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Viola was singing “The Willow Bends Her Boughs for Me” as she stoked the kitchen stove.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The white peonies and the iris flowers were long since gone, and on the Harvest apple trees and the Sweet Boughs the fruit hung ripening.

From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne