bough
Example Sentences
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You walk toward the shimmering air, an arch of cedar boughs intertwined above it.
From Literature
A black-and-white squashed-skunk figure hugged the branches above, huddled in the safety of the tree, whose boughs were bending into a leafy cage around her.
From Literature
He fell asleep watching the silent green boughs of the First Tree, while Wolf sped out of the cave on some mysterious errand of his own.
From Literature
It was small, glittering like a Fourth of July sparkler on the bough of a sagging cedar tree.
From Literature
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
