underbrush

How To Use underbrush In A Sentence

• Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.
• Careful studies of silt prove beyond doubt that its primal cause is the removal of the forest cover, such as underbrush, weeds, and grasses, along the streams, which allows the rainfall to run off rapidly. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
• It was basically underbrush - small bushes, thickets, plants with long branches and thorns.
• Finally, the Federals ran out of ammunition and turned to fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, scrambling through the forest and the underbrush.
• Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either. The Two Vanrevels
• Uphill, downhills, through rivers and through underbrush, this unknown Kiwi never faltered or stopped.
• Merida was barely the size of a large house cat, but she was still small enough to lose in the forest underbrush.
• They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood. The King's Best Highway
• Here and there he could sense animals rustling through the underbrush. A TIME OF WAR
• He might have outwatched me, though I kept amazingly still, but the hounds were crashing through the underbrush below, and he must needs be off. The Hills of Hingham