underbrush
Example Sentences
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Each day, I made the three-mile round trip to inspect the warblers, chipmunks and generally mysterious rustlings of the underbrush.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
At one fishing spot, a big mama iguana and eight babies scramble into the underbrush; it felt like a scene from “Jurassic Park.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
In 2022, around 11,000 acres were “treated” with underbrush removal, selective logging and preplanned burning.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
I turned around, as Yakov had done—I knew it, I felt it—but Frankie was the only person to emerge from the underbrush.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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