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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

“I see a ‘No Trespassing’ sign, I don’t do it,” she explains, recalling how her wife might pick fruit off a neighbor’s tree if the bough hangs over the fence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

The great hemlock bough lay across Gray’s chest, cleaved from the tree.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

And although their shaggy boughs somewhat resemble teddy bears, they’re sharp if you step too close.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

At last, we found it: a sturdy Douglas fir with boughs that had pleasant symmetry and enough firmness to carry ornaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

The old tree at which the saw was working was dead except one great branch that stood green among the masses of brown boughs.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen