scrubby
Example Sentences
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Kharg Island, targeted in US air strikes on Saturday, is a scrubby stretch of land in the Gulf that handles almost all of Iran's crude exports.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Should I use precious column inches teasing out the scrubby understeer of a Toyota Sienna minivan?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
She says she had been stuck in France for two months, after travelling there from Vietnam via Hungary, sleeping in tents in a scrubby forest.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
Setting fires in the Sandhills of central North Carolina requires an understanding of moisture levels in the scrubby underbrush, and she gets a better sense of it in bare feet.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024
Higher and higher they climbed, above the tree line, to where there were only rocks and scrubby plants and trickling mountain streams.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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