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One of them, photographer Tim Laman, had tied a line to an arrow and shot it over a high bough.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

“I see a ‘No Trespassing’ sign, I don’t do it,” she explains, recalling how her wife might pick fruit off a neighbor’s tree if the bough hangs over the fence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

It flapped its wings vigorously and hopped up and down on a withered bough.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

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

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

These designers like to bring in fragrant boughs of cedar to scent their spaces.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

This would have been during the holidays, five months earlier, because I remembered the porch banisters all decorated with pine boughs and an enormous, sweet-smelling bayberry wreath that hung on the front door.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings