privet

How To Use privet In A Sentence

• When you plant a new hedge, prune vigorous shrubs, such as privet, by reducing the length of the branches and shrub height by one-fourth to one-third.
• Instead of a privet hedge, why not train apple trees to clothe a lattice?
• I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents. Secrets of the Tudor Court
• Chinese privet is present in eight of the 16 management areas surveyed.
• There is parking in the communal gardens, which has a curving driveway, mature trees and shrubs, all bordered by a privet hedge.
• And every so often, despised water descended from the sky, flooding the hollows under the privet where he preferred to lie before an owl swooped from nowhere one night and carried him away.
• The lush, wild growth of holly, privet, hawthorn and multiflora rose hedge simulate a natural environment while providing excellent building sites, offering shelter and secluded perching and providing escape routes when necessary.
• Other seasonal berries include ilex winterberry, privet and, yes, holly. Side-Table Sparkle
• IN THIS year Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons deprived Sigeberht of his kingdom because of his unjust acts, except for Hampshire; and he retained that until he killed the ealdorman who stood by him longest; and then Cynewulf drove him into the Weald, and he lived there until a swineherd stabbed him to death by the stream at Privett, and he was avenging Ealdorman Cumbra. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
• It had been a lilac, possibly, or an ancient privet.