briar

Example Sentences

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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

It created a taut moment before we were launched into the briar patch below and Br’er Rabbit could hop to safety.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024

And the witness box is his briar patch.

From Washington Times • Feb. 27, 2023

"If she thinks her case is so weak she doesn't want to send it over, throw me into that briar patch."

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2019

Slowly and painfully they clambered down, groping, stumbling, scrambling among rock and briar and dead wood in the blind shadows, down and down until they could go no further.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien