bough
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One of them, photographer Tim Laman, had tied a line to an arrow and shot it over a high bough.
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
I would tether Frightful to a hemlock bough above me and splash her from time to time.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
Dozens of animals rely on them to survive, from ladder-backed woodpeckers who nest in their trunks to desert night lizards who sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
There was a white cloth in the center with hay and fir boughs in front of each person.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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