briar
Example Sentences
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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
Guests will have their final chance to plunge a five-story drop through a briar patch on May 30, giving Disneyland attendees one last busy Memorial Day weekend to experience the attraction in its current form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
During the reprise, a complaint by Cinderella’s Prince about the “thicket of briar, 100 feet deep” protecting Sleeping Beauty leads to a tongue-twisting musical exchange:
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
And the witness box is his briar patch.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
