shrub
Example Sentences
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As he neared the approach to the bridge, the trees gave way to low shrubs.
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He went back in the direction they’d come from, parting the reeds and shrubs.
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There were shrubs clinging to the surface, and birds perched on occasional outcrops—crows, a nest of sand martins, and a flock of four silver-gray hawklike birds Christopher had never seen before.
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A scruffy shrub fence that was in desperate need of trimming leaned all around it.
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During this time, peat soils reached extreme dryness and woody shrubs became more widespread.
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