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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

If you bend a balsam bough in the summer, it won’t snap; after a few frosts, it will.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

But the force of Pain was too swift, and even as his paws brushed some bramble or bough, he was swept away before he could catch hold.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

Desert night lizards sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

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

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

The lack of boughs made it difficult to hang the ornaments evenly, so the kids had to hang ten or more ornaments per branch.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser