bramble

This year, while contemplating navigating the bramble of union strike rules about what’s promotable during Hollywood’s dual writer-actor stoppages, the longtime Humanitas Prizes for screenwriters encountered an additional complication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

The bramble was so thick, police used ladder trucks to peer into sections that could not be searched by foot.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

The team stocked the foraging area with blackberry bramble and filled the surrounding moat with water to help keep the ants contained.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

This lively red from the Beaujolais cru appellation of Morgon is rich with cherry and bramble flavors.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

Behind the bramble, half-hidden by a swirl of mist, a gray-brown shape, a rat, shaking dirt from his ears.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

We passed by apple, nectarine and pear trees, then blackberry brambles as large as a football field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Meanwhile, in nearby pastures and olive groves, the buildup of grasses, brush, and brambles was kept under control through a combination of livestock grazing, manual brush cutting, and occasional managed burning.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

Raspberries are brambles, part of the absurdly large genus Rubus.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

After inspecting the grounds, Tawny asked Roz to remove all the dried brambles and weeds and leaves from the garden area.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

That face — all determination and brambled beard — still fronts much of the league’s promotional material, including its “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, which is aimed at improving fans’ behaviour.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017

We knew not then how time passed, and could but dimly guess how things were going beyond the brambled copse in which we fought.

From In the Valley by Harold Frederic

There are certain well-charted highroads where there were once only brambled trails.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow

For their crane had been left in a brambled hole, and they very soon rigged it out again.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Thy feet she leads to glittering peaks, while mine She guides midst brambled roadways.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean!

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White