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shrubbery

[shruhb-uh-ree] / ˈʃrʌb ə ri /
NOUN
shrubs
Synonyms
STRONGEST
underbrush
STRONG
brush bushes hedge scrub

Example Sentences

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He showed them some shrubbery and Mary, who went to look, "fell in a hole".

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

Police said the fire was approximately one square foot in size and was made up of garbage and shrubbery from the hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Police arrested him after noticing the tip of a rifle poking through shrubbery a few hundred yards away from Trump who was inside the golf course.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

“The golf course is surrounded by shrubbery. When someone gets into the shrubbery, they’re pretty much out of sight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024

Ever since Billy had been thrown into shrubbery for the sake of a picture, he had been seeing Saint Elmo’s fire, a sort of electronic radiance around the heads of his companions and captors.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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