Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use hedgerow in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Hedgerow means a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge. Example: “He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.”

Examples of hedgerow by meaning

nounA row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

  • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
  • If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen1971, Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven”
  • Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).2013 October 31, Frank McNally, “When Anglophone lines get crossed”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times Trust, archived from the...

More sentences with hedgerow

  • In fact, a railway lined with hedgerows and shrubs would be perfect for reliability and biodiversity.2025 October 1, Dr Neil Strong, “Managing linesides”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 15. From the entry hawthorn
  • The hedgerows were coated with icing sugar and the walk was rather picture-postcardish.2015, Maggie Robinson, All Through the Night, A Holiday Story. From the entry picture-postcardish
  • Box stalls filled with fresh produce, known as "hedge veg", can be found on hedgerows, with an honesty jar alongside.2017 September 15, Kari Herbert, “Guernsey goes gastro: a food adventure in the Channel Islands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry honesty jar
  • The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline.2011 January 31, Ian Sample, The Guardian. From the entry quaint
  • We were suspicious; the boys were a little nervous because in a hedgerow we didn't know where our friends and foes were.2009, John Wayne Gorman, Dorothy Gorman Yundt, Patrick Quinn, Compass: U.S. Army Ranger, European Theater, 1944-45, page 58. From the entry heinie
  • Blackthorn is a common hedgerow tree of chalk and limestone areas, where it seems to thrive better and produce more fruit than on acid or clay soils.1989, Brian Lee, Fields and Hedgerows. From the entry blackthorn winter
  • Fieldfares which chacked as they rose from berried hedgerows and isolated thorns were in their winter quarters; they had yet to face a long sea crossing to nest.1967, A year with the curlews: life on the Northern Pennines, page 16. From the entry chack
  • The normal behavior of the flowers of the shrubby althaea (H. syriacus L.) of our hedgerows and flower gardens is practically the same as that of the swamp hibisci.1928, Torrey Botanical Club, Torreya, volume 28, The Period of Anthesis in Hibiscus, Alexander F. Skutch and Robert L. Burwell, Jr, page 2. From the entry hibisci

Meaning of hedgerow

  1. noun A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

Full definition of hedgerow

Questions about hedgerow in a sentence

How do you use hedgerow in a sentence?
Hedgerow is used as a noun. For example: “He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.”
What is a short sentence with hedgerow?
“The hedgerows were coated with icing sugar and the walk was rather picture-postcardish.”
What does hedgerow mean?
Hedgerow means a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hedgerow (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use hedgerow in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/hedgerow. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.