shrubbery
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Others put up fences and prickly shrubbery to deter loiterers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
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
Lines of thick shrubbery along Congress Avenue - the road on the right in the image below - would have given some cover to the suspect, if he had been hiding there.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2024
He followed him for several blocks—over fences, through shrubbery, weaving through yapping dogs and lawn sprinklers and hot tubs.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
This will then be used on landscaping projects and shrubberies across the Royal Parks.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022
‘Flamboyance: A Topiary Menagerie’ A leisurely stroll through South Coast Botanic Garden will reveal more than 100 trees and shrubberies sculpted to look like flamingos, monkeys, dolphins and other creatures great and small.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
Save for some dangling black lampshade tassels on Laura Dern’s shell pink Armani Privé, and what looked like small shrubberies on Sandra Oh’s shoulders courtesy of Elie Saab, the decorative froufrou had been streamlined.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
There is a VIP area, hidden by shrubberies, located between the restrooms and one of the boring machines.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
On such a spot fairies would pitch for their revels, noticing how the curtains of the shrubberies would mask their troopings, and the extending wings of boscage give surprise to their exits and entrances.
From England by Fox, Frank, Sir
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