shrubbery

Example Sentences

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Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shrubbery loses its bright snow headgear and stands bare and frail, too undernourished to hide the drains it was intended to hide.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Her dress, for instance, at the Shrubbery Ball was indeed up to date—just a band under the armpits for a bodice.

From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)

Mr. Mallathorpe, he said, had gone out of the front door of the Grange at half-past two on Saturday afternoon, carrying a gun, and had turned into the road leading towards the South Shrubbery.

From The Talleyrand Maxim by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

In the Shrubbery, too, we shall find little of novelty.

From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George