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How to use bush in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adverb

Bush means a woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. Example: “I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.”

Examples of bush by meaning

nounA woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres...

  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18

nounA shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

  • bushes to support pea vines

verbTo set bushes for; to support with bushes.

  • to bush peas

verbTo use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

  • to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

verbTo become bushy (often used with up).

  • I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.

nounThe countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora...

  • The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.2000, Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood, page 16
  • The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.2021 September 6, “Australian farmers under pressure from climate change”, in Australian Herald, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2021

adverbTowards the direction of the outback.

  • On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

adjectiveNot skilled; not professional; not major league.

  • They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

More sentences with bush

  • He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.From the entry break
  • A popular aphorism says it best: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.From the entry best
  • We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.From the entry gooseberry
  • Just stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is!From the entry beat around the bush
  • That birdbrain just drove right through three rows of traffic cones and into the bushes.From the entry birdbrain
  • There's no way I'm going through the thorn bushes dressed like this!From the entry no way
  • Despite the watchful nature of the passing gazelles, the leopard lay unspotted under the bush.From the entry unspotted
  • I asked Jim what religion he was, and he replied "bush baptist".From the entry bush baptist
  • This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.From the entry walkable
  • Australia has always been prone to bush fires due to its woody landscape.From the entry bush fire
  • The two men found the three women destringing freshly picked bush beans for the evening meal.From the entry destring
  • We added a new bush to our rose bed.From the entry bed
  • Those cranberry bushes are ornamental, so they're not edible.From the entry ornamental
  • The cat hightailed it out of the bushes.From the entry hightail it
  • The bush is often deflorated by browsing wildlife.From the entry deflorate
  • The fishnets were hung over bushes to dry.From the entry fishnet
  • The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.From the entry set down
  • The first thing to strike my eye was a beautiful pagoda. Tragedy struck when his brother was killed in a bush fire.From the entry strike
  • The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.From the entry spook
  • After several days in the bush, he had grown lax with his barbering and needed a good shave before he was presentable again.From the entry barbering
  • The outfitter deposited us at a small airstrip out in the bush, promising to pick us up again in a week's time.From the entry airstrip
  • Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!From the entry paperboy
  • Our current papergirl does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old papergirl sometimes would fling it into the bushes!From the entry papergirl
  • His remains would have been scattered across thousands of acres of bush and ravine.2026 July 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Bryce Laspisa Vanished Near Castaic Lake After Spending 13 Hours Parked on a California Highway”, in Skip…. From the entry remains
  • Who wouldn't want to bring their boyfriend's nose bush to my shop when they see this?2025 October 26, Rich Rinaldi, “The Skids in the Hall” (8:52 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 16, episode 4, spoken by Gretchen…. From the entry frost-stache
  • Too Hot to Handle definitely doesn’t beat around the bush with its premise.2023 April 3, Maria Polcari, “How Does Terrible Trash TV Make So Much Money?”, in Weird Marketing Tales, archived from the original on 22…. From the entry hook-upper
  • Let's not beat about the bush - we are absolutely living hand to mouth now on TfL.2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42. From the entry beat about the bush
  • Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 136. From the entry bush fly
  • Bush, within the frontal cortex, it's the PFC that is “the decider.”2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry PFC
  • Bush and Sununu played good cop–bad cop, with Sununu clearly enjoying his role as the bad cop.2017, Craig Shirley, Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry good cop–bad cop
  • Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.2015 November 26, Lucie Vaníčková et al., “Current knowledge of the species complex Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae) in…. From the entry sibling

Meaning of bush

  1. noun A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
  2. noun A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
  3. noun A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.

Full definition of bush

Questions about bush in a sentence

How do you use bush in a sentence?
Bush is used as a noun, verb and adverb. For example: “I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.”
What is a short sentence with bush?
“to bush peas”
What does bush mean?
Bush means a woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bush (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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