How To Use Scrubby In A Sentence
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Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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We decided against that peninsula because we are not fond of the excessive heat and humidity thereabouts and we also found the peninsula to be a bit of a scrubby and unscenic flat and undistinguished land except perhaps in the southern part approaching other parts of Southern Mexico and along certain coastal corridors.
Retiring in Yucatan
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From over scrubby cheekbones eyes looked into Winston's, sometimes with strange intensity, and flashed away again.
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Scrubby flatwoods are commonly adjacent to or intermixed and integrated with rosemary scrub.
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I then changed to the north-west again, through a scrubby country — mulga, acacia, hakea, salt bush, and numerous others, with a plentiful supply of grass.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments.
One Woman's Life
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The film is grainy and rich, you can almost feel the old dusty wood, the waterfalls, the rocky buttes and scrubby plains leap out of the screen.
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We all had bikes, cursed the buses, and haunted the Blue store on the corner, Joe's Cut price and Scrubby Creek with it's collection of shopping trollies., otherwise known as FAM - I lived it for many years and I still keep in touch with members of BFAM.
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He's the one with the bush hat, check shirt, scrubby moleskins and a perpetual cigarette pasted to his lips.
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Juniper, pinion, greasewood, Mormon tea, and scrubby brush grow sparingly on the rocky terrain.
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scrubby cut-over pine
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Before long, the scrubby plain has offered kudu, ostriches and a jackal.
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A scrubby is, for those who don't know, a large ball of twisted pieces of metal used to scrub caked-on gack from cooking gear.
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Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Shower gels and a nice bath scrubby, maybe a little pot of sugar scrub.
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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
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Now used generally for remote rural areas ( "the bush") and scrubby forest. bushfire: wild fires: whether forest fires or grass fires. bushman/bushwoman: someone who lives an isolated existence, far from cities, "in the bush". (today: a "bushy") bushranger: an Australian "highwayman", who lived in the ` bush '-- scrub -- and attacked especially gold carrying coaches and banks.
Children of the Bush
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TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, erect decking, build pergolas, plumb in water features, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
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She had insisted upon his learning his catechism, and attending church twice every Sunday, and she had knitted him a comforter, the material being that harsh and scrubby worsted which makes the word comforter a sound of derision.
The Golden Calf
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The former, as it grows hereabout, is short and scrubby, with branches nearly to the ground, and looks like the dwindling remnant of a greater race.
Winter Sunshine
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The lowan (Mallee hen, they’re mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners.
Robbery Under Arms
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He was a big, good-natured fellow with a scrubby brown beard that had liberal flecks of gray.
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He pulled his horses to the edge of the highway, above a stupendous array of mountains, dry rivers, scrubby hill crests.
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Take the sponge, run it under hot water, get a drip of washing up liquid (there must be detergent for a thorough wash) onto the scrubby side of the sponge.
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Two years postburn, we found a significant reduction in subcanopy cover of oaks (but not of other subcanopy hardwoods) and in the shrub cover of scrubby oaks, other hardwoods and palmettos.
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On either side of the glade was a fence, of the old stake-and-rider type, though little of it was to be seen, so thickly was it overgrown by wild blackberry bushes, scrubby oaks and young madrono trees.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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Gap dynamics and the availability of open space differ between rosemary scrub and scrubby flatwoods.
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Tracks leading up into the scrubby, windswept highlands of the Slieve Aughty and down toward silty creek beds and swift rivers flowing south and west toward Lough Derg and the Shannon.
Earl of Durkness
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Not that there's anything particularly romantic or evocative about the landscape - a low, scrubby forest alternating with tracts of rolling parkland cleared in readiness for the agricultural season.
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Making an early start, we crossed at four and a half miles, a low scrubby range, and there found, upon the left of our track, some very pretty grassy hills, and a valley lightly wooded with casuarinae.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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Mr. Vink bought a 2,000-square-meter lot from a local religious order that was moving its pagoda to a new location, and paid about $5 a square meter for the scrubby, jungly property.
Cool in Cambodia
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Scrubby bushes of black coral and huge gorgonians reach out towards the sky.
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I'm in northern New Mexico trying to follow her through the bosque, a scrubby forest along the Rio Grande flood plain.
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You can almost feel them breathing on the page: outspoken Da, her best friend's grandmother; "spooky old" Mrs. Steinbott, with her odd gifts; and even a fox whose presence Mo senses in the scrubby woods nearby.
Tricia Springstubb's 'What Happened on Fox Street,' for young readers
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The road flowed through the scrubby grassland like a meandering stream --- just like home.
TICKLED PINK
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He rolled, bouncing from one outcrop to the next, until he managed to fling out an arm and grab on to a scrubby thornbush.
Songs of Love & Death
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Another description is called the scrubby oak -- it resembles the British gnarled oak, and is remarkably hard and durable.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
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In the distance where the land dips away, neighbouring fields are surrounded by scrubby hedges with large gaps.
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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The wide belt of dune-land with its hummocks and scrubby grass growing out of the sand was deserted at that hour.
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He had been there from the beginning, since the little girl in the pink frock had raised her scrubby fist and inquired fearfully about the ‘bad people.’
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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The rolling hills, cuestas, and ridges of the Western Cross Timbers are naturally covered by oak savanna, scrubby oak forest, and prairie and are underlain by interbedded sandstone, shale, and clay.
Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
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Mill was a marge of firm soil, along which a column could pass, in scrubby country, and between the bogs was a sort of bridge of dry land.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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Scrubby acacia bush gave way to tussocks of cram cram grass until that too disappeared.
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Arnold's set presents an arid landscape studded with scrubby vegetation (love-lies-bleeding is a desert-blooming flower).
Times, Sunday Times
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We were flying over the desert and the bare, scrubby land was beautiful and strange when seen from above.
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(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
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In their silent daytimes at the bottom of a reed bed or scrubby ditch, they are invisible and often start singing only in the last minutes of light.
A Year on the Wing
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open scrubby woods
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The San Gabes were a scrubby desolate range northeast of the city, from which bears and mountain lions emerged with regularity to attack the inhabitants of tract houses gouged from the hills.
Excerpt: The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
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Valenciennes lace, that being the simplest frock in her wardrobe; but she privately thought even Mrs. Washington's apotheosised lawns and organdies very "scrubby," and could never bring herself to anything less expensive than summer silks, made at the greatest house in Paris.
The Californians
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Dawn to dusk, each hour, Patricio would guide twenty pilgrims to the cave while the others queued up, seeking shade under every leafless cactus and scrubby tree near the chain.
The Calling
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They were a scrubby and desolate range from which bears and mountain lions streamed down to ogle and sometimes attack the inhabitants of houses gouged from the hills.
Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
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Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
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The Marais Communal of Curzon lies in the lap of low scrubby hills, like a green sea of stillness.
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The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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There also grew, in the sandy bed of this river, a new white-flowered MELALEUCA, resembling M. ERICIFOLIA, but with long mucronate leaves90; and, in the scrubby bank the
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Sure, they had a certain scrubby appeal, but the guys on Jackass were basically dorks.
Mr Jackass : GQ Feature
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TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
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The Chantrey demesne, by contrast, was definitely ragged, scrubby grass with the odd daffodil appearing as if by mistake.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Green-gold reefs and white breakers, a huddle of black rocks topped with scrubby bushes and clouds of birds.
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His son John was born in the small thatched-roofed, mud-walled cantonment, which is even to-day eighty miles from the nearest railway, in the heart of a scrubby, tigerish country.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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The Wilderness was second-growth country, gullied and full of scrubby chinkapin and blackjack oaks, scraggy pines, hazel, and every kind of thorn - and bramble-bearing bush known to man.
The Guns Of The South
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The Chantrey demesne, by contrast, was definitely ragged, scrubby grass with the odd daffodil appearing as if by mistake.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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The lowan (Mallee hen, they're mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
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I want a scrubby, ornery, low-down, snuff-dipping, back-woodsy, piebald gang, who never heard of finger bowls or Ward McAllister, but who can get up a mess of hot cornbread and Irish stew at regular market quotations. '
Rolling Stones
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The country traversed, consisted of scrubby flats, and low sandy ridges, timbered with bloodwood, messmate, mimosa, melaleuca, grevillea, and two or three species of the sterculia or curriijong, then in full blossom.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
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I was then exfoliated from top to toe with nice scrubby stuff which left me all a-tingle.
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Lord Danesbury read Atlee's letter with an enjoyment not unlike the feeling an old sportsman experiences in discovering that his cover hack -- an animal not worth twenty pounds -- was a capital fencer; that a beast only destined to the commonest of uses should actually have qualities that recalled the steeplechaser -- that the scrubby little creature with the thin neck and the shabby quarters should have a turn of speed and a 'big jump' in him, was something scarcely credible, and highly interesting.
Lord Kilgobbin
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The Taverham visitor spent much time hunting for insects and larvae among fallen leaves in scrubby woodland.
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However, from Karadi to Dandi, the land is arid and the vegetation scrubby.
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Unfortunately, in scrubby far South Texas, we had nothing like a jungle.
WILLIAM DAVID BARNETT 10 NOVEMBER 1958 - 19 JUNE 2001
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At one time or another (including copyrights) this person has had about fourteen hundred pounds of my money, and he writes what he calls a posthumous work about me, and a scrubby letter accusing me of treating him ill, when I never did any such thing.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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“Fred the scrubby was my best friend growing up,” Steve said.
Steve and Me
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This roadside forest is hut a scrubby mix of hardwoods and pines, with a wet smear of inch-deep creek running through the middle.
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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It's like On the Road, except the roads are circular, confined to the reservation's scrubby badlands and a repellent Nebraska border town riddled with liquor stores.
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As we came into town, dust sprinkling the air with the ashes of the day, his windows burned high on the scrubby hillside.
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An elderly man in a beige anorak was powering across the scrubby grass towards her.
TICKLED PINK