NOUN
- tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America
- tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
How To Use bullrush In A Sentence
- I remember when the only good fighter was the machine gun tripper. now he can use bullrush, disarm, even grapple effectively and is usually pretty damned good at defending against those same type of attacks. Pathfinder Fighter vs. Ice Devil? « Geek Related
- Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
- Poised on a bullrush tipsy with his weight: Nay, in his cage the lone canary sings, Feels the soft air, and spreads his idle wings. The Story of My Life
- Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
- In the season there would be plenty of bullrushes in the dykes and ditches in the low-lying areas with a high rainfall.
- Worked in silk on silk, it depicts Moses in the bullrushes, a subject that Vanderpoel's research suggested had been worked at the school, but no example of which bad come to light.
- The armed man opens fire and Jayne decides to bullrush the two men and succeeds in knocking them to the floor. GAMING NEWS: Captain Bob's Serenity! (13 January 2007)
- Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green.
- Summer times us went bar headed, but Unker Ned made bullrush hats for us to wear in winter. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
- A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
