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 apparition of these faces in a crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

There was even a grey muslin flag hung at half-mast by the bent bough archway into our spot.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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 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

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

Then, in the quiet of that whitening night, standing in new snow with the pine boughs coated above him, Turner felt the hand that he had feared all night long grab him by the shoulder.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt