bracken

Example Sentences

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Only decades ago many of the cottages in Scotland’s Highlands were roofed in heather, bracken and marram grass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Alternatively, you can use wool bracken and also coconut coir, but it has a few question marks against it because it's a waste material from coconut plantations, grown mostly in India and Sri Lanka.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

It’s where we made forts in old tree trunks and threw bracken fern spears and swam in the cold waters of Puget Sound all summer.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2021

Though uses have been found for the wool, from making rugs to being mixed with bracken to form a hardy compost, the Herdwick's real value to a farmer is its meat.

From BBC • May 15, 2021

We trod upon broken twigs, and last year's leaves, and here and there the fresh green stubble of the young bracken, and the shoots of the bluebells soon to blossom.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier