brushwood

How To Use brushwood In A Sentence

• The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
• She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend.
• Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines, or deep and flowery brushwood -- the 'maquis' of Corsica, which yields shelter to its traditional outlaws and bandits. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
• Sometimes besiegers piled up firewood and brushwood at the gates or walls of their intended target in order to start fires that, they hoped, would damage their enemies' defenses.
• a straight avenue through a disfeatured park -- the park of Chambord has twenty-one miles of circumference; a very sandy, scrubby, melancholy plantation, in which the timber must have been cut many times over and is to-day a mere tangle of brushwood. A Little Tour of France
• Brushwood associations on the peat soils are composed mainly of grey willow Salix cinerea, dwarf birch Betula humilis and Pinus silvestris. Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
• Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh. Fraser Island, Australia
• There were the beams of their flashlights, actually probing through the loose brushwood of his shelter, getting in his eyes. KARA KUSH
• She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend.
• The trackway, made of bundles of brushwood pegged down with stakes, was just wide enough for a single person or animal to walk along.