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How to use shrubbery in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Shrubbery means a planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it. Example: “The path was lined with thick shrubbery.”

Examples of shrubbery by meaning

nounA planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path...

  • trim the shrubbery
  • The path was lined with thick shrubbery.

More sentences with shrubbery

  • Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.From the entry prowl
  • You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass. From the entry manscape
  • She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling.1909, H.G. Wells, Chapter the First: The Stick of the Rocket, in Tono-Bungay, Book the Fourth: The Aftermath of Tono-Bungay. From the entry darkling
  • A little poking around in the shrubbery should reveal its science fiction-like body, resembling slimy scarlet tentacles emerging from a half-buried egg.2006 October 21, Peter Marren, “Day of the fungi”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 15. From the entry devil's fingers
  • A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253. From the entry salt-and-pepper
  • The Air Force in Viet Nam has special teams that blast away tree leaves and other shrubbery beside canals that offer hiding places for the Viet Cong.1966, The Conservationist - Volumes 21-22, page 34. From the entry smokey bear
  • Indeed, it seems to have had at that time more and finer trees than now, and to have been more bosky with scattered copses and masses of shrubbery.1930, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929, page 345. From the entry bosky
  • That night, as Grimley Grange was sleeping the sleep of the just, two shadowy forms crept through the shrubbery by the library window with all the stealthiness of professional house-breakers.1915–1916, John Lea, “Sir Guy’s Atonement: A Christmas Term Story”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXXVIII, part 3, London: “Boy’s Own…. From the entry sleep of the just

Meaning of shrubbery

  1. noun A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.
  2. noun Shrubs collectively.

Full definition of shrubbery

Questions about shrubbery in a sentence

How do you use shrubbery in a sentence?
Shrubbery is used as a noun. For example: “The path was lined with thick shrubbery.”
What is a short sentence with shrubbery?
“trim the shrubbery”
What does shrubbery mean?
Shrubbery means a planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.

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