briar

Example Sentences

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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

It created a taut moment before we were launched into the briar patch below and Br’er Rabbit could hop to safety.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024

Now he's caught in a briar patch of predatory lending endangering his life and his and Dennis' livelihood.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2023

During the reprise, a complaint by Cinderella’s Prince about the “thicket of briar, 100 feet deep” protecting Sleeping Beauty leads to a tongue-twisting musical exchange:

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

I could try to cut through the woods, but around here, they were thick with briar bushes.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate