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How to use bramble in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Bramble means any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper. Example: “I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.”

Examples of bramble by meaning

nounAny of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the...

  • Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
  • At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408
  • Jeanette is making bramble jelly.2016, Ann Burnett, Take a Leaf Out of My Book, page 37

More sentences with bramble

  • I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.From the entry patch up
  • My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.From the entry rip
  • Will pay you in bramble berries and daisy chain necklace if okaysies.2025 April 25, James R Naz, “Fish and Chippies”, in Jamie, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry okaysies
  • Now that you know, you might consider yourself a batologist, one who studies blackberries and other brambles.2013 August 7, Suzan Bellincampi, “Batty Batologist”, in Vineyard Gazette. From the entry batologist
  • I slithered over roots and through a bramble bush and a mulchy pile of rotting leaves.2010, Adrian McKinty, The Dead Yard. From the entry mulchy
  • This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles.1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry gravekeeper
  • There was a time every spring when bees swarmed all over the brambles and the apple and pear trees.2015, Jamie Alan Belanger, D.L. Harvey, Shelli-Jo Pelletier, Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions. From the entry buzzle
  • Their bootprints turned to face the thicket of briar and bramble in exactly the same place mine had.2009 February 11, Paul Evans, “Country diary”, in The Guardian. From the entry bootprint
  • You can alley crop with brambles, blueberries, fruit or nuts.1995, The New Farm - Volume 17, Issues 1-4, page 28. From the entry alley crop
  • Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push. From the entry noxiousness
  • He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.2020 March 5, Tom Lamont, “The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground”, in The Guardian. From the entry fringe
  • Sheep can be fleet of foot, especially if you are trying to get hold of them to demaggot them or remove bramble from their wool.2016, Adam Henson, Like Farmer, Like Son. From the entry demaggot
  • The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347. From the entry raspberrying
  • There was a man from London Town, Who was so very wise, He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes.1906, Sarah Stone Williams, The Man from London Town, page 5. From the entry London Town
  • Even palisade fencing can be climbed by a determined trespasser, but a good-size hawthorn hedge, lined with thorns and the inevitable brambles, is a serious obstacle.2025 October 1, Dr Neil Strong, “Managing linesides”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 15. From the entry hawthorn
  • Videos showed a badger entering a sett less than two metres from where the contractors had been using petrol hedge-trimmers to strim brambles, the resident said.2023 January 22, Jane Dalton, “Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’”, in The Independent…. From the entry strim
  • The ruck passes clean through bramble hedges, scattering the circling crowd when the ‘bottle’ breaks loose into the hilltop meadow full of ice-cream vans, pushchairs, picnics and ambulances.2008, 1000 Things to Do in Britain, Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry ice-cream van
  • In the narrower parts we had to push our way along it between bushes and brambles which scrabbled along the sides as though they tried to pull us back.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 217. From the entry scrabble
  • She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it.1997, Alice Hoffman, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997, page 370. From the entry Africanish

Meaning of bramble

  1. noun Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
  2. noun Any thorny shrub.
  3. noun A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

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Questions about bramble in a sentence

How do you use bramble in a sentence?
Bramble is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.”
What is a short sentence with bramble?
“Jeanette is making bramble jelly.”
What does bramble mean?
Bramble means any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.

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