bough
Example Sentences
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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
“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 apparition of these faces in a crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021
Clare scaled the tree to meet her, carefully stretching from bough to bough, then ducking into the leafy cage where she was riding out the storm.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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