bushwhack

Example Sentences

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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 was about getting into the wilderness, navigating with a map and compass, and finding adventure. If you want to bushwhack, you go climbing with Jack.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2017

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