bushwhack

Example Sentences

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In northern Idaho, there’s a 7-mile gap where hikers have to bushwhack across Forest Service land and land managed by the Idaho Department of Lands.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022

You are going to have to find — no, bushwhack — your own path.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2020

This is Matt Blain, who made enough money working at Google that he could quit and do what he really wanted to do: bushwhack and mountain bike.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2019

He’s grown up since then, and I’d rather give him the space to bushwhack through America’s racial angst—and maybe even make mistakes—than reward tidy, safe spectacles that simply pretend that everything’s fine. 

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2016

As we bushwhack along, the mountains themselves tell me we have arrived.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George