brushwood

How To Use brushwood In A Sentence

• There were children paddling in the streams, and girls carrying brushwood bundles on their heads, and old men sitting in the shade, sucking at their silver hookahs.
• By six o'clock they were invisible, both from the road and anywhere else, protected by layers of brushwood. BARRACUDA 945
• He was in a cave, with a brushwood awning just covering the entrance. KARA KUSH
• And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! Moby Dick; or the Whale
• They erected such corrals at intervals of approximately six-hour marches, always near drinking water, pasture and brushwood for the fire.
• Though Irineo would not trust anyone else to assist him on his expeditions, he won't let Fulgencio pack or even cook, only help load and herd the llamas, get water and gather brushwood for the fire.
• After they scrambled out of the grotto, the apostles conducted Ivan round the corner of the cliff, where the vertical granite wall turned into a less steep slope covered with thick brushwood.
• In Krinding - a makeshift camp of brushwood and plastic close to Sudan's border with Chad - the stories are all horribly similar.
• While they're generally expensive, they will last for years and are quick and simple to use, making them ideal for city gardens where collecting quantities of brushwood is simply out of the question.
• Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore