How to Use bramble in a Sentence

bramble

noun
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  • Raspberries that aren’t trellised and pruned regularly quickly become overgrown and form large patches of brambles that block off garden walkways and make harvesting tricky.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2024
  • The goats will eat the brambles and poop on the lawn; the nutrients will go back into the soil.
    — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • The vines, brambles and saplings growing where fields and pastures once stood pull the piles of stones apart.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Learning how to spot their glint of colour, even in the deepest reaches of the brambles.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The state stopped maintaining it in 2010, and the land lies covered in brambles, mud and rocks.
    — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, 16 June 2019
  • Netting and brambles are laid over the top in places to obscure the contours.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The 2019 is dark garnet with aromas of black plum, black currant, and a touch of bramble.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 June 2024
  • The path to Cho’s cardamom wove upward through waist-high brambles that scratched at my bare legs.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The rest of it is berries left in the bramble after a visit from midday starlings.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • They are now buried in the local cemetery under stones and brambles.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Foliage and brambles line the lip of the trench to obscure its contours to attackers.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The project to transform a stretch of Boise Greenbelt into a pocket park began with a walk through the brambles.
    — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 5 May 2017
  • Then, from thorny bramble, the wildcat exhales in a guttural hiss.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The next morning a railroad worker spotted the girl’s partly clad body in a bramble of ivy.
    — oregonlive, 15 May 2020
  • Last year, as the crusts of snow retreated behind my house, a pair of Sandhill Cranes began to stalk the brambles.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Magic promotes the encroachment of the brambles, a kind of killer kudzu that puts those who touch it into a death-like sleep.
    — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Garden gloves are a great way to protect yourself from thorns, brambles, and scratchy plants—and keep your hands cleaner, too.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Brambles and bushes carpeted old orchard lands on sides of the trail.
    — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
  • Across a gurgling brook, up a muddy slope, over mossy tree limbs, through a tangle of brambles and vines, the dogs covered acres of terrain.
    — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • So grab a shotgun and work over every tangle of hedgerow brush and field-edge bramble, and stomp on every pile of timber slash.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Right out of the glass is smoky bacon, a meaty iodine and some earthy bramble—all pleasingly followed onto the palate.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • The recordings are still cryptic, a hazy bramble of ambience.
    — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Adding to the embarrassment, the rocket landed in a swamp and the team members had to wade out through the bugs and brambles to recover the wayward rocket.
    — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
  • The team stocked the foraging area with blackberry bramble and filled the surrounding moat with water to help keep the ants contained.
    — Emily Anthes Todd Heisler, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
    — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That’s a fair question, even though its fatuousness should have sent Will fleeing into the brambles.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • The narrow footway was a good place to spot herons and it was surrounded with brambles so thick that two people could barely walk side-by-side.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In June 2019, a Guatemalan mother, her toddler son and two other young children died of exposure in a thick bramble near McAllen.
    — Dudley Althaus, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Last summer saw the falling of the brambles before the axes of men, saw the reclamation of the old house by industrious women.
    — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
  • That wasn't an issue in my gnarly test bramble, which is usually mowed by a tractor the size of a Victorian manor.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2019

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