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

Standing in the Simonside hills area of the Rothbury estate in Northumberland, there is bracken underfoot and open countryside as far as the eye can see.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023

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

He’d left the cart in the bracken beyond the dunes and they’d taken blankets with them and sat wrapped in them in the windshade of a great driftwood log.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy