brier
Example Sentences
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“My attitude is, ‘OK, throw us in that brier patch.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2019
Luckily, baseball has four years to work through this brier patch.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2018
Never mind “Fifty Shades of Grey”; check out the 50 shades of green, or the blossoms bursting through the flotsam and jetsam in those rowdy zones where rust, rubber, bramble and brier rumble and twine.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2012
Oh, please don't throw me into the brier patch!
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2010
The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
