bough

Sometimes seven-year-old Bayas would stand on a slender bough and lean out until it bent under his bulk, then ride it to a neighboring trunk.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

Stuntman Hurd McClellan had strapped on a bulletproof vest and swung like a pendulum suspended from a tree bough as news accounts said Semmelmeyer shot him several times without mishap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

There wasn't a single twinkling light or even a scrap of a pine bough, all the way from the subway station to her building.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

If you bend a balsam bough in the summer, it won’t snap; after a few frosts, it will.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low- hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

Among the bold-faced names dangling in ornament form from our boughs are Anna Wintour, Frida Kahlo, Karl Lagerfeld and Snoop Dogg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

A black-and-white squashed-skunk figure hugged the branches above, huddled in the safety of the tree, whose boughs were bending into a leafy cage around her.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman