bough

Sometimes seven-year-old Bayas would stand on a slender bough and lean out until it bent under his bulk, then ride it to a neighboring trunk.

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

Robotically he got into his clothes, though when he reached for his shoes he saw that only one was hanging from the forked bough.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

At Cold Comfort Farm “dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

Dozens of animals rely on them to survive, from ladder-backed woodpeckers who nest in their trunks to desert night lizards who sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

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