shrubbery
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Hey, there might be one more second over there, hiding in the shrubbery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
As I stood in the shrubbery near her window, Cindy waved her hand this way and that, directing me from inside about the best spot for the feeding station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Light jazz played from unseen speakers in a grassy landscape ribboned with walkways and dotted with drought-tolerant shrubbery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
Starting out in Igneada, in the north of the country, he walked along a slippery, uneven trail for half a day, through dense forest and sharp shrubbery in the direction of Bulgaria.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
After a few hundred yards they turn off and point to a house that stands a little distance away among the trees and shrubbery.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
Dig and dress such flower borders and shrubberies as may now be cleared of annuals and the stems of herbaceous plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various