bramble

For long stretches, Fish and I walked in the bike lane, or in the bramble by the side of the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

Just off the road, a tall bramble of bushes and weeds grew so thick and thorny, even trained cadaver-sniffing dogs could barely penetrate it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

The team stocked the foraging area with blackberry bramble and filled the surrounding moat with water to help keep the ants contained.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Transforming the bramble patch at the end of the garden into John's home has brought Bill a friend, community and a new job.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

I came up the run just as the men were taking the bramble out again.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

We passed by apple, nectarine and pear trees, then blackberry brambles as large as a football field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Meanwhile, in nearby pastures and olive groves, the buildup of grasses, brush, and brambles was kept under control through a combination of livestock grazing, manual brush cutting, and occasional managed burning.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

Raspberries have been crossed with other brambles to get boysenberries, loganberries and tayberries.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

And his ankles are stuck under a mess of brambles and boards.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

That face — all determination and brambled beard — still fronts much of the league’s promotional material, including its “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, which is aimed at improving fans’ behaviour.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017

Or, bowling peacefully upon my bike, Well breakfasted, by no distractions flustered, Pause near a leafy copse or brambled dyke, And answer song for song the black-backed shrike, The curlew and the bustard.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various

We knew not then how time passed, and could but dimly guess how things were going beyond the brambled copse in which we fought.

From In the Valley by Harold Frederic

For their crane had been left in a brambled hole, and they very soon rigged it out again.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"You tiresome boy!" she gasped, holding one little hand to her side as she gripped her brambled skirt around her ankles with the other.

From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean!

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley