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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

It flapped its wings vigorously and hopped up and down on a withered bough.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

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 ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

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

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

Two great trees stood there, one on either side, like living gate-posts; but there was no gate save their crossing and interwoven boughs.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien